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Darren Hayes – singer, songwriter, producer, performer and former frontman of the iconic pop duo Savage Garden – takes control of his life story in this candid, unfiltered memoir.

The Whole Truth

Jackie's bestselling memoir - now in paperback

AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs

New biographies and memoirs

A Different Kind of Power

Mark Kriegal

Till Death Do Us Part

Lauren Zonfrillo

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

Letters from Gaza

Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq, Mahmoud Alshaer

Breaking Through

Katalin Karikó

My Family and Other Animals

Guenther Steiner

James Patterson

The Trading Game

The Penguin Lessons

The Taylor Swift Book

The Lives of the Caesars

Main Character Energy

Things Become Other Things

The Fate of the Day

Biography and memoir collections

You wouldn't read about it

In their own words

True stories of courage

Inspiring women

Remarkable journeys

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Everything I Know About Love

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What's Your Dream?

The Wild Silence

Your Story, Mum

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Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

When Breath Becomes Air

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The Mysteries of the Universe