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Cicero: Selected Letters
Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert Pirsig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon...
A Long Way from Home
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
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Author: Stephen Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high...
The Hard Road Out: One Woman's Escape From North Korea
Author: Jihyun Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. 'A...
Corrupt Bodies Death and Dirty Dealing at the Morgue Shortlisted for CWA ALCS Dagger for Non-Fiction 2020
Author: Peter Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from...
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
The Pilgrimage
Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes...
Francis Bacon: Revelations
Author: Mark Stevens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive...
Places I've Taken My Body
Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50
Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...
The World According to Joan Didion
Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
American Sniper The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Author: Chris Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir
Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny,...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
The Trauma Cleaner
Author: Sarah Krasnostein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 261 A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was...
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur
Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
Attila The Hun
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
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Author: Philip Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as...
How to Make Gravy
Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely...
Open Book
Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Biography & Autobiography Bargain Book Box
Discover extraordinary life stories with our Biography & Autobiography Bargain Book Box! With 18 captivating books, featuring everyone from Steve Jobs to Paris Hilton, this collection offers a diverse range...
Killing Time:
Author: Jimmy Barnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Extraordinary short stories from the long road home from Australian music icon and author of bestselling memoirs Working Class Boy and Working...
Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad
Author: Terry Jennings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In a signed copy of his autobiography, Waylon Jennings penned a personal note to his son, Terry Jennings, ending it with...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories
Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
My Squirrel Days
Author: Ellie Kemper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of...
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
Author: Richard P. Feynman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical...
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Author: William P Barr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures...
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
Author: Hadley Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study...
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
Author: Matthew Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
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Author: John Kaag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection. --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by...
Mozart: The Reign of Love
Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
My Lucky Stroke
Author: Sarah Brooker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet. On...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY
Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' - IAN RANKIN Friendships...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Billie Eilish, Rebel Teen to Alt-Pop Queen
Author, Mr Kevin Pettman Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 64 The must-have celebration of Billie Eilish, the most talked about teen on the planet. This book takes fans up close...