Island Nurses
Leonie HowieRRP: £14.99
Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island – so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 k …
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The Art of Not Falling Apart
Christina PattersonRRP: £9.99
New Statesman’s Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don’t find it all that funny when things go wrong. M …
White Boy Running
Christopher HopeRRP: £9.99
In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year’s whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberal …
A Tokyo Romance
Ian BurumaRRP: £8.99
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in …
Mrs D is Going Within
Lotta DannRRP: £12.99
Despite outward appearances three years after getting sober Lotta is struggling to deal with life in the raw. It’s becoming abundantly clear what people mean when they say putting down the drink is ju …
Afterglow
Eileen MylesRRP: £8.99
Skinny’s Book of the Year, 2018In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer’s way of being. Over the course of sixteen …
Running – A Love Story
Dom HarveyRRP: £12.99
Dom Harvey is a hugely popular radio DJ. He’s known for his funny gags, and has been described as a shock-jock.So it might come as a surprise to find out that Dom is also seriously into running – mara …
The Seventh Circle
Robert LangdonRRP: £14.99
A harrowing account of Afghanistan’s notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, written by its longest-serving western inmate.Former soldier Rob Langdon was working as a security contractor in Afghanistan when h …
In Sickness, In Health… and In Jail
Mel JacobRRP: £14.99
The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.After fourteen years of marriage, Mel Jacob’s life looked …
D.A.A.S.
Paul LivingstoneRRP: £14.99
Under the guise of his alter ego Flacco, Paul Livingston once basked in the reflected glory of Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler, and their anarchic comedy incarnation, the Doug Anthony …
Small Pieces
Joanne LimburgRRP: £8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JQ WINGATE, 2017My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it’s analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, …
The Forgotten Children
David HillRRP: £8.99
In 1959 David Hill’s mother – a poor single parent living in Sussex – reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good …
Cork Dork
Bianca BoskerRRP: £10.99
The Independent’s 2017 Book of the Year and a 2020 London Eater recommended read for lockdown’If Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about wine, the results wouldn’t linger much more pleasurably on …
A Forger's Tale
Shaun GreenhalghRRP: £10.99
Observer’s Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of …
Daughter of the Territory
Jacqueline HammarRRP: £9.99
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline’s childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin …
Elephant Dawn
Sharon PincottRRP: £14.99
In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arriv …
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