Straight Up
Ruby TuiRRP: £14.99
After a childhood filled with neglect Ruby yearned for another path. Determined not to let her upbringing limit her, she survived abuse, drugs and tragedy to become one of the most successful women’s …
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Untwisted: The Story of My Life
Paul JenningsRRP: £9.99
In the telling of his own tale, children’s author and screenwriter Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine into a compelling drama. As if assembling the pieces of a jigsaw pu …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Bibliomaniac
Robin InceRRP: £10.99
***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***’A unique, funny picture of Britain… A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman’Ince’s love of books is infectious.’ ‘ …
The Joy of Gardening
Lynda HallinanGardens teach us to live in the moment. They nourish us, provide solace in grief and offer sanctuary from the stresses of modern life.In a celebration of the healing power of nature, New Zealand garde …
Monster
Sanyika ShakurRRP: £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 BirtlesRRP: £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 …
The Accidental Teacher
Tim HeathRRP: £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 KeneallyRRP: £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 PlumleyRRP: £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 BradshawRRP: £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 …
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