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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The World's Strongest Book

Eddie Hall

RRP: £9.99

Go behind the scenes with Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall as we follow his incredible journey from World’s Strongest Man to competing in ‘The Heaviest Boxing Match in History’ against his nemesis Hafthor ‘Thor …

Never Better

Tommie Gorman

RRP: £10.99

The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love …

The Wood Life

Mark Wood

RRP: £10.99

*WINNER OF THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR**FOREWORD BY BEN STOKES*Hallo – I’m Mark Wood. As an England and Durham cricketer who was born, raised and refined in Ashin …

Bad Boy Boogie

Jeff Apter

RRP: £16.99

Bon Scott was once asked if he was AC or DC. ‘Neither,’ he grinned, ‘I’m the lightning flash in the middle.’ And that’s how he lived his life.No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called h …

Monster

Sanyika Shakur

RRP: £10.99

I propose to open my mind as wide as possible to allow my readers the first ever glimpse at South Central from my side of the gun, street, fence and wall.After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off sh …

The Truth About China

Bill Birtles

RRP: £16.99

‘People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me …

A Child of the East End

Jean Fullerton

RRP: £8.99

‘Funny, stark, fascinating’ THE INDEPENDENT’An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era’ KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society’A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a uniqu …

The Accidental Teacher

Tim Heath

RRP: £16.99

With his sharp wit and poet’s eye, Tim Heath writes of a forty-year career, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa. He’s worked in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence Sc …

A Bloody Good Rant

Thomas Keneally

RRP: £18.99

‘When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren’t to be a better society, …

A Home for All Seasons

Gavin Plumley

RRP: £10.99

Gavin Plumley considered himself a distinctly urban being…until he met his rural husband, Alastair. Together, they bought Stepps House – a three-storey building in Pembridge, Herefordshire – on love …

Doc

Jon Bradshaw

RRP: £14.99

Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a ‘messianic rock god’.He was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppable. He was terrifying …

The Women's Doc

Caroline de Costa

RRP: £16.99

‘We never train women in Sydney,’ Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology. She and her husband packed their bags and their childr …

The Break

Steve Cummings

RRP: £10.99

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing autobiography of one of Britain’s most successful international cyclists of the modern era’Getting in a …

Anna

Amy Odell

RRP: £12.99

‘Fascinating’ Sunday Times’Deeply sourced and rich with anecdotes’ The Times’Like a nonfiction version of The Devil Wears Prada’ Elizabeth Day’Odell’s extensive reporting dredges up a wealth of deligh …

Gun to the Head

Keith Banks

RRP: £14.99

Keith Banks was a member of the Queensland Police Force when not everyone with a badge could be trusted. Raw and confronting, Gun to the Head reveals what it was really like to be a tactical police of …

Prison Break

Arthur Taylor

RRP: £14.99

New Zealander career criminal Arthur Taylor was paroled from prison after more than 38 years behind bars and Prison Break tells his story in a warts-and-all look at prison life, offering a unique insi …

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