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By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand's first helicopter hunti...

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.Think of a place where can you stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and...

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate gambling ads, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast?Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14. 95?And, most of all, do you think t...

The true crime cult classic that inspired an upcoming Netflix documentary series and companion podcast, The Ultimate Evil follows journalist Maury Terry's terrifying investigation into the true evil behind the Son of Sam murders.On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sa...

We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about what we can learn about life from a brush with death.At just twenty-two, on the cusp of adult life, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed wit...

In 1955, in a village in Greece that was marred by war and poverty, Giannoula and Fotios Panagiotopoulos dreamed of providing a better life for their children. Australia, it was rumoured, was a land of opportunity where hard work brought reward.Leaving behind family and friends, they set off to make...

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded.Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist mira...

An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin’s Russia, by a former Kremlin insider."I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremli...

On 6 June 1944 when the Allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit England in summertime to face within hours a storm of m...

Packed with fresh and surprising stories, 1945: The Reckoning takes readers on a spectacular journey from the deadly jungles of Burma through hospital ships on Indian rivers and copper mines in Formosa to the 'lost trains' of the Belsen concentration camp. As the fate of the world is decided so too ...

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-ges...

In the summer of 2009, James May—a co-presenter on BBC TV's Top Gear—embarked on a great adventure. Helped by children of all ages, he built a range of classic toys for his popular show. This high-spirited book captures those escapades, with explanations of how May constructed the projects as we...

'I'm always wary of llamas. They're mischievous and smart. I get a sense, when I approach them, that they are conferring. as if to say, 'That's that bloke off the telly.'Bill Bailey has always had dogs in his life, including a Lakeland Terrier called Rocky who would travel with him in the van to his...

A true story of love in wartime and in peace by one of New Zealand's finest writers.In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family.After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to ...

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world’s most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to J...

One of the world’s bestselling storytellers, Lesley Pearse writes brilliantly about survivors. Why? Because she is one herself.Born during the Second World War, Lesley’s innocence came to an abrupt end when a neighbour found her, aged 3, coatless in the snow. The mother she’d been unable to wa...

"Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T...

Siberia's expansive history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell.Dotted throughout this remote and beautiful landscape are pianos created during the boom years of the nineteenth century. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian c...

A beautiful, heartfelt, funny and inspiring collection of photographs capturing the spirit of a cityIn the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the...

His name is Yossel.In another time, in another place, this fifteen-year-old boy could have grown to be a great artist, but in Nazi-occupied Poland Yossel, a Jew, is an untermensch and thus has no rights ― and no future.When the Nazis confiscate his family's home and force them to live in the overc...

A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing ...

The celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of EuropeLake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region’s past and the secret of its enduring allure. Two ...

Did you know that. government spies can turn on your phone and use the microphone to listen to your conversations?. that lesbian and gay relationships are illegal in 78 countries and can be punished by death?. that Amnesty recently recorded the highest number of executions globally for more than 25 ...

Roger Rogerson captured Australia's attention as its most notorious cop in the golden age of graft and violence. But who was the real Rogerson? And who was his principal partner in crime, the underworld kingpin, heroin dealer and armed bandit Arthur 'Neddy' Smith? Now Rogerson and Smith are both dea...