Ten Steps To Nanette
Hannah GadsbyThe memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where …
Genre: Science, Health & Medicine
Rewording the Brain
David AstleRRP: £12.99
A guide to cryptic crosswords and how they can help increase brain power.DA, whose crosswords appear with fiendish regularity in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, is the scourge of cryptic crossw …
Led by Donkeys
AnonymousSeeking to highlight the hypocrisy of our politicians on Brexit four friends armed with nothing more than ladders, roller brushes and a treasure trove of damning statements from our leaders slapped up …
She Speaks
Yvette CooperLooking at the greatest speeches of all time, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Elizabeth I and Boudica were about the only women to have dipped a toe into the pool of public oratory. But the truth …
A Game of Two Halves
Amy RaphaelThere are nearly 50 million displaced children in the world, but it’s all too easy to overlook them in these fractured times. In 2017, the actor David Morrissey – a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR, the …
Hollywood Wants to Kill You
Michael BrooksAsteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse – why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should we take the …
Three Little Truths
Eithne ShortallRRP: £12.99
Martha used to be a force of nature: calm, collected, and in charge. But since moving her husband and two daughters to Dublin under sudden and mysterious circumstances, she can’t seem to find her foot …
WINX
Andrew RuleAustralia’s world champion racehorse Winx has become a sporting giant, transcending racing in the same way that Muhammad Ali transcends boxing and Don Bradman transcends cricket. She is described by h …
Eddie Jones
Mike ColmanRRP: £9.99
The first biography of the enigmatic coach who has completely transformed the England rugby team.After Eddie Jones began coaching England’s rugby team in November 2015, they won 22 of their next 23 ma …
The Perils of Perception
Bobby DuffyRRP: £8.99
New Statesman’s Best Books of 2018’Mandatory reading’ Steven PinkerDo you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the ri …
Am I Dreaming?
James KingslandWhen a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming?, science journalist James Kingsland reveals how the human brain is remarkably similar. By rebooting our hard-wire …
Barefoot Surgeon
Ali GripperRRP: £14.99
Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world’s medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundr …
Race Across the World
John SmailesRRP: £14.99
In 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world’s greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged. Four weeks later …
Wine Reads
Jay McInerneyRRP: £9.99
Country & Townhouse’s Best Book for Christmas, 2018A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney – bestselling novelist and acclaimed w …
For All Mankind
Harry HurtRRP: £10.99
Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.Betw …
A Good Life to the End
Ken HillmanRRP: £12.99
A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why. Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to …
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