An Uneasy Inheritance
Polly ToynbeeRRP: £10.99
‘Fascinating’ Spectator’Entertaining’ Sunday Times’Enthralling’ Guardian’Beautiful, funny and moving’ Daily Mail’Compelling and moving’ Observer’Replete with vivid – often hilarious, often shocking – …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
How to Read Now
Elaine CastilloRRP: £12.99
‘I cannot say enough about How to Read Now… Check it out’ Roxane Gay’A red-hot grenade… One of my favourite books of the year’ Jia Tolentino’Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funn …
The Kids Will Be All Right
Robyn FausettRRP: £18.99
An essential guide to parenting today’s teens.In this fast-changing world how do we, as parents and caregivers, keep on the same page as our teens? The challenges and experiences they face can seem a …
The Quiz Masters
Brydon CoverdaleRRP: £16.99
Who wants to be a millionaire?Brydon Coverdale did, and dedicated himself to outsmarting quiz masters on every Australian TV and radio trivia format he could – until he became so successful, he was hi …
The Raven's Nest
Sarah ThomasRRP: £12.99
‘Fascinating’ – Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways’Truly a thing of wonder’ – Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places’Lyrical [and] thoughtful’ – Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentV …
Keith Urban
Jeff ApterRRP: £16.99
Four Grammys. 20 US Number Ones. A Hollywood marriage. Who wouldn’t want to be Keith Urban?Keith Urban came from humble origins. His father worked at the local tip and Keith was a high school dropout. …
Politics: A Survivor’s Guide
Rafael BehrRRP: £10.99
A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023 ‘Passionate, clever, and often very funny’ Marina Hyde’A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth’ Rory StewartWe live in an age of fu …
The Bookseller at the End of the World
Ruth ShawRuth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life.She’s sailed through the Pacific for y …
How to Think Like a Woman
Regan PenalunaRRP: £10.99
As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovere …
The Collaborators
Ian BurumaRRP: £10.99
‘A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.’ Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in c …
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
Lisa DamourRRP: £10.99
*A New York Times bestseller!*An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives – and how to support them through this critical development …
Why We Sing
Julia HollanderRRP: £12.99
‘A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song’ – Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific f …
Masters of the Lost Land
Heriberto AraujoRRP: £10.99
‘Powerful’ Financial Times’More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller’ Spectator’A story we all need to hear’ New Statesman’Gripping… Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect’ New …
How to Fake Being Tidy
Fenella SouterRRP: £16.99
My mother wasn’t much of a housekeeper. She wasn’t much of a cook either, although she tried. She longed to live a more unconventional life. Admirably high-minded, but it meant I never learnt to fold …
The Countess from Kirribilli
Joyce MorganRRP: £16.99
She was ‘amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle’. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disg …
The Commanders
Lloyd ClarkRRP: £12.99
A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
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