Suarez - 2016 Updated Edition - The Extraordinary Story Behind Football's Most Explosive Talent
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Luis Suarez is one of the most brilliant and controversial p...

Montsalvat: The Intimate Story of Australia's Most Exciting Artists' Colony
Montsalvat: The Intimate Story of Australia's Most Exci...
Montsalvat: The Intimate Story of Australia's Most Exciting ...

Finding Gobi (Younger Readers edition) - The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey
Finding Gobi (Younger Readers edition) - The True Story...
For fans of A Streetcat Named Bob comes Finding Gobi, the he...

Travelling to Infinity - The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything
Travelling to Infinity - The True Story Behind the Theo...
In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, rela...

Iron Maiden - Updated Edition - The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Updated Edition - The Ultimate Illustrate...
Few bands have as widespread global appeal as Iron Maiden. T...

The Salmon - The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fish
The Salmon - The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fis...
`Sometimes the river was too high to see the fish pairs well...

Fifty Years of 60 Minutes - The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast
Fifty Years of 60 Minutes - The Inside Story of Televis...
A history of 60 Minutes—the iconic American TV news broadca...

Ronaldo - 2018 Updated Edition - The Obsession For Perfection
Ronaldo - 2018 Updated Edition - The Obsession For Perf...
A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or, Cristiano Rona...

Neymar - 2017 Updated Edition - The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar
Neymar - 2017 Updated Edition - The Unstoppable Rise of...
From a young age, Neymar was identified as a future great of...

The Making of Return of the Jedi - The Definitive Story Behind the Film
The Making of Return of the Jedi - The Definitive Story...
Just as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed t...

Inside the Mind of BTK - The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
Inside the Mind of BTK - The True Story Behind the Thir...
A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller ...

Finding Gobi (Main edition) - The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey
Finding Gobi (Main edition) - The True Story of a Littl...
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob ...

Finding Gobi (Main edition) - The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey
Finding Gobi (Main edition) - The True Story of a Littl...
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob ...

The Anzac Girls - The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
The Anzac Girls - The Extraordinary Story of Our World ...
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Z...

Suarez - 2016 Updated Edition - The Extraordinary Story Behind Fo

A Long Way Gone - The True Story of a Child Soldier

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. `My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should...

Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape

Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 – ‘Zero Night’ – 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first ‘Great Escape’ – but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious ‘Warburg ...

Stone Cold - The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier

‘If I’d have been a Vietcong you’d be dead.’ – Len Opie ’Len was a soldier above soldiers.’ – Keith Payne VC Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of the country’s greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he fought with his bare hands, a sharpened shovel and piano wire. He was a larrikin who went by the book, un...

Finding My Place - From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman

From Cairo to Canberra – the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman ‘Anne Aly’s … influence will be felt for years to come … It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.’ – The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. She was also most proba...

Hana'S Suitcase Anniversary Edition - A True Story

‘Really, it’s a very ordinary looking suitcase. You could fit quite a lot in it. Books, games, treasures, toys. But nothing is inside it now. Across the front, there is a girl’s name, Hana Brady. A date of birth: May 16 1931. And Waisenkind. That’s the German word for orphan.’ Where did Hana Brady come from? Where was she going? What did she pack? What Fumiko finds in Hana’s suitcase is a ...

Not Your Average Nurse - From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary...

‘Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous … Oh, the stories I can tell!’ To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it’s never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London’s King’s College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It’s sin...

Hotel K - The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Hotel K – Bali’s most notorious jail – is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali’s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it’s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K’s filthy and disease ridden cells ...

Codename Suzette - An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris

‘During the German occupation of France, Suzanne Spaak displayed almost super-human courage… Anne Nelson has written an extraordinary book that finally does justice to Spaak’s story of heroism and sacrifice.’ —Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters Codename Suzette is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust, an account of outstanding courage in the face of evil. Suzanne Spaak was b...

The Only Story

Would you rather love the more; and suffer the more; or love the less; and suffer the less? That is; I think; finally; the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences; but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen; he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older; the demands placed on Paul by love become fa...

Sounds Appealing - The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it … There have long been debates about ‘correct’ pronunciation in the English language, and Britain’s most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do. Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the de...

The People Smuggler - The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi

Robin de Crespigny’s The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspring story of one man’s escape from Saddam’s Iraq to become ‘the Oskar Schindler of Asia’. When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, he is forced to leave his family behind in Iraq. What follows is an incredible international odyssey through the shadowy world of fake passports, crowded camps and illegal border ...

Bon: The Last Highway - The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black

The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock. As the legend of the man known around the world simply as ‘Bon’ has grown with each passing year since his untimely death, AC/DCs trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon. But how much of it is true and how much is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black is a special – and unli...

Maralinga, the Anangu Story

‘Maralinga – the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you.’ In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after. Honour Book, 2010 Children’s Book Council of Austral...

Playing to Win - The Inside Story of Premiership Glory

Playing to Win reveals the intimate story of how Hawthorn, Australia’s most successful football club over the past 60 years, won its 11th premiership.Award-winning author Michael Gordon takes the readerinside the room at the key moments during the highs and lows of Hawthorn’s five-year journey, from an unexpected flag in 2008 to redemption in 2013 after a narrow defeat in 2012. He exposes how th...

The 5 Love Languages Military Edition - The Secret to Love That Lasts

Advice for military couples“As soon as I arrived in Afghanistan, I began reading The 5 Love Languages®. I had never read anything so simple yet so profound.” — Anonymous soldier If you are in a military relationship, you know the strain of long deployments, lonely nights, and difficult transitions. For extraordinary challenges like these, couples need specific advice.In this updated edition of...

What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child - Revised and Updated Edition

In this updated classic, Glenn Doman – founder of “The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential” and pioneer in the treatment of the brain-injured children – brings real hope to thousands of children who have been sentenced to a life of institutional confinement. Based upon a half-century of successful work performed at The Institutes, this book explains why old theories and technique...

The Southern Reach Trilogy - The Thrilling Series Behind Annihilation, the Most Anticipated Film of 2018

’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON For years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearan...

The Duchess - The Untold Story - the Explosive Biography, as Seen in the Daily Mail

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `The last untold account of the biggest crisis to hit the royals since the abdication … Explosive biography by Britain’s top royal author … A gripping story of human frailty, love, loss, sadness, and tragedy’ Daily Mail In her relationship with Charles that has survived for more than forty years, Camilla’s story has seen a great many myths. This book is the d...

Magna Carta - The True Story Behind the Charter

‘A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta…his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.’ Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday ’I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is descriptive, narrative and analytical. This is good history.’ Gerard DeGroot, The Times At Runnymede, on the banks of the Riv...

Shrinks - The Untold Story of Psychiatry

A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry’s origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining ‘lunatics’ in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for ‘the black sheep of medicine’ has b...

Finding Gobi (Younger Readers edition) - The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey

For fans of A Streetcat Named Bob comes Finding Gobi, the heart-warming true story of a dog who captured the hearts of the world. Younger readers’ edition. Finding Gobi is the ultimate story of hope and friendship – proving once again, that dogs really are `man’s best friend.’ In 2016, Dion Leonard, an ultramarathon runner, stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 15...