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Featured biographies & memoirs
Unlovable
Darren Hayes

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.

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The Whole Truth
Jackie O

Jackie's bestselling memoir - now in paperback

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PATRIOT
Alexei Navalny

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

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New biographies and memoirs
A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
Baddest Man
Mark Kriegal
PATRIOT
Alexei Navalny
Till Death Do Us Part
Lauren Zonfrillo
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
Miranda Hart
Wintering
Katherine May
Letters from Gaza
Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq, Mahmoud Alshaer
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
Spent
Alison Bechdel
Story of a Murder
Hallie Rubenhold
Unfiltered
Guenther Steiner
Breaking Through
Katalin Karikó
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
The Penguin Lessons
Tom Michell
Anaximander
Carlo Rovelli
The Taylor Swift Book
DK
Pathemata
Maggie Nelson
Bookish
Lucy Mangan
The Place of Tides
James Rebanks
The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
Main Character Energy
Bianca Hunt
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Children of Radium
Joe Dunthorne

Biography and memoir collections
You wouldn't read about it
In their own words
Good sports
True stories of courage
Inspiring women
Reflections
Footy memoirs
Remarkable journeys

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