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The Shark Net
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was in...
View full detailsFoxcatcher. A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three times by du Pont family heir John E. du Pont ...
View full detailsPlease, Daddy, No
Stuart just wanted his father to love him, but he was made to believe he was too naughty to be loved. Finally, David Howarth was sent to prison for...
View full detailsCash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash
He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been ...
View full detailsStrong Woman: The Truth about Getting to the Top
Karren Brady is an inspiration to women everywhere, and her incredible success is borne of her passion, impressive business instinct, ambition, and...
View full detailsDe Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings
Librarian Note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 05-Jul-1999 . De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison t...
View full detailsChurchill's Generals
Essays discuss the lives and careers of twenty of the leading British generals of the Second World War
Hackney Child
Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-30 272 English At the age of nine. Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Newington Police Station with her little brothers an...
View full detailsStreet Kid
John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on ‘Home Truths’. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog ...
View full detailsMy Outdoor Life
'If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough...
View full detailsWe Ain't Go No Drink, Pa
Too many children. Too little money. An abusive father too drunk to notice his family is starving. This is the true story of a little girl's strugg...
View full detailsRecipe for Life: The Autobiography
From Queen of Tarts to the nation's heart, Mary Berry shares her Recipe for Life. From the moment she came into the world—two weeks early, throwing...
View full detailsSpilling the Beans - Ssb Paperback Clarissa Dickson Wright
As a child, Clarissa Dickson Wright was surrounded by wealth and privilege. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon to...
View full detailsA Better Me
**The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller** Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but fifteen yea...
View full detailsOn the Edge: My Story: Abridged for Younger Readers
From the first ridiculous stunts on his tricycle to his increasing and near obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of gas, this is the high-oc...
View full detailsA Monk Swimming
A Monk Swimming [Paperback] McCourt, Malachy
The Pianist of Yarmouk
Pre-order The Pianist of Yarmouk. 'In amongst the wreckage scenes of hope. An amazing man - Ahmad played the piano just to spread love' Jeremy Vine...
View full detailsA Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer, #3)
The third instalment of a series of autobiographical books of his life, continues the story of Dave Pelzer overcoming being abused as a child. The ...
View full detailsTornado: In the Eye of the Storm
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the ...
View full detailsCalum's Road
An incredible testament to one man’s determination' – The Sunday Herald Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in ...
View full detailsJenny Pitman: The Autobiography
This autobiography of Jenny Pitman describes how she became successful in the male-dominated profession of horse racing. Pitman was one of the firs...
View full detailsQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2010] Shawcross, William
From her birth in 1900 to her later years as Britain's much-loved Queen Mother, Shawcross traces Queen Elizabeth's life against the backdrop of 20t...
View full detailsTerrified
Unwanted and unloved, Vicky arrives on the doorstep of foster mom Angela Hart clutching only a carrier bag of clothes that were old and too small. ...
View full detailsThe Other Side of the Dale
Gervase Phinn is a school inspector in Yorkshire, including the Yorkshire Dales. He chronicles in this book his appointment to the local school ins...
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