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Chasing Bohemia
Author: Carmen Michael
ISBN: 9781921215407

Carmen Michael, a 28 year-old travel industry executive, ditches her job in London and visits Rio de Janeiro for a holiday. Wary of the allure of glossy brochure promises, she starts out very much as... [view more]

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The Lady and the Peacock
Author: Peter Popham
ISBN: 9781846042508

Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated... [view more]

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Mental Resilience - the Power of Clarity
Author: Kamal Sarma (Photographer); Shelley Kenisberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9780977566808

This book gives a step-by-step guide on how to develop mental resilience. Tips on how to focus your mind, reduce stress and maintain clarity in all situations.... [view more]

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Author: Xiaolu Guo
ISBN: 9780701180386

Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to... [view more]

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The Mascot
Author: Mark Kurzem
ISBN: 9780670029686

`I want to know who I am. I want to know who my people are before I die ... I want to place a flower on my mother's grave. Wherever that may be.' Alex Kurzem As a five-year-old during the Second... [view more]

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Running with Scissors
Author: Augusten Burroughs
ISBN: 9780733621697

In this unforgettable, and by turns hilarious and harrowing memoir, Augusten Burroughs recounts the bizarre events of his childhood. After his parents\' divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left... [view more]

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Farewell, Dear People
Author: Ross McMullin
ISBN: 9781921844669

For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. This book seeks to... [view more]

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Repeat until Rich
Author: Lee Aaron Blair; Josh Axelrad
ISBN: 9780091909888

'I was thrown out of my first casino in spring of 2000. In the years since then I’ve kept playing and kept winning, in wigs, under aliases, from behind fake glasses. I’ve been chased across casino... [view more]

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Annabella Boswell's Journal
Author: Annabella Boswell
ISBN: 9780207155666

Annabella Boswell's Journal,illustrated with her own charming water colours,provides a vivid insight into the trials and pleasures of a young woman in colonial Australia.... [view more]

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Enchanted Evening
Author: M. M. Kaye
ISBN: 9780140285154

Mollie is disoriented and thrilled by the social whirl of Peking, and discovers the giddy pleasure of independence as she makes a success of her painting. Then, still pining for the sights, sounds... [view more]

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At Leningrad's Gates
Author: William Lubbeck
ISBN: 9781844156177

This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck, , was... [view more]

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Things Ive Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
ISBN: 9780434014040

In her bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi opened her world to us, offering a vibrant portrait of women's lives in Iran. In this stunning new book, Nafisi returns to Iran and her... [view more]

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Robbie Williams
Author: Paul Scott
ISBN: 9780233000466

From the 'artful dodger' of Stoke-on-Trent to international stardom with boy-band Take That, his near self-destruction and the song that 'saved his life', to the record-breaking [pound]80 million... [view more]

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Walden and Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry David Thoreau; Michael Meyer (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780140390445

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau... [view more]

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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Author: Thaddeus E. Carhart
ISBN: 9780099288237

Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. Pianos were everywhere: they... [view more]

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The First time They Tried to Kill Lincoln
Author: Daniel Stashower
ISBN: 9780312600228

Based on his lifelong fascination with the history of crime, Daniel Stashower brings us the thrilling true story of Allan Pinkerton, America's first "private eye." This historical narrative... [view more]

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General Washington's Christmas Farewell
Author: Stanley Weintraub
ISBN: 9780743246545

"One of America's greatest Christmas stories and also one of its very first - from the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution - was a creation of... [view more]

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Onward and Upward
Author: Linda H. Davis
ISBN: 0880641096

A Biography of Katharine S.White... [view more]

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A Legacy Lived
Author: L. Allen Morris; Barbara R. Thompson (Editor); Ida Morris-Bell (Editor); Dick Parker (Editor)
ISBN: 9780964085275

Allen Morris was a man of the twentieth century. In A LEGACY LIVED, he tells how he managed a career as one of South Florida's most successful real estate developers while committing himself fully to... [view more]

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Tears at Bedtime
Author: Andrew Crofts; Tom Wilson
ISBN: 9780099517726

At just six years old Tom Wilson fell prey to a predator of the worst sort. David Murphy was supposed to be his carer, instead he endured years of abuse in the dead of night. Over forty years later,... [view more]

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