A Mother's Choice
Elle HalliwellRRP: £14.99
On May 1st 2016 Elle Halliwell, an Australian fashion editor, was diagnosed with leukaemia. Two weeks later just as she was telling friends and family about the grim diagnosis she found out she was 4 …
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For a Girl
Mary-Rose MacCollRRP: £12.99
I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface o …
Drawn Out
Tom ScottDrawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott’s tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his …
Only
Caroline BaumRRP: £14.99
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far betwe …
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 …
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 Forger's Tale
Shaun GreenhalghRRP: £12.99
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 …
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: £24.00
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 …
Smuggler
Richard StrattonRRP: £8.99
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run s …
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, …
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