Elle by Elle Macpherson
Category: General
Stories, memories and life lessons from an Australian icon I have learned that love is what really matters… My life experiences brought about that discovery. I deeply wish that you learn unconditional love, firstly of yourself, then of others, then of life itself. It’s your true nature. In the dazzlin ...Show more
My Good Bright Wolf - A Memoir by Sarah Moss
Category: General
My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.Sarah Moss, author of The Fell and Summerwater, confronts all of this in a book that pushes at the boundaries of memoi ...Show more
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan
Category: General
Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. He commands huge armed forces and runs a technology programme meant to dominate the globe. His ambition is to take the place of the United States and to change the world order. Xi's life story is full of drama: plots, pur ...Show more
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump
Category: Biography/Memoir
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A ...Show more
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill - The Private and Personal Letters by Sir Winston S. Churchill; Michael Dobbs (Foreword by); James Drake (Editor)
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show t ...Show more
When Life Gives You Lemurs: How Saving Animals Saved Me by Deborah Kane, Tim Husband
Category: New Arrivals
'A compelling story, beautifully told, about how animals can show you a way forward.' - Richard Glover A story of the tender power of animals to heal broken humans. Tim Husband was born into a Jehovah's Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God's Word. Struggling to fit into this orthod ...Show more
The Scandal of the Century by Lisa Hilton
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The Scandal of the Century Description Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating female In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its o ...Show more
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here by Benji Waterhouse
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Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking - an enlightening and darkly comic window into the world of psychiatry 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm 'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY, author of Strong Female Cha ...Show more
Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood
Category: General
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'T ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Category: General
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial int ...Show more
Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy by Mick Conefrey
Category: General
On 6 June, 1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two days later they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows.In ...Show more
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art by Patrick Bringley
Category: General
A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art When Patrick's older brother dies at twenty-six, all he wants is to retreat. So, he does. He quits his job and seeks refuge in the most beautiful place he can think of: New York's Metropol ...Show more