Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan.
Son of Escobar: First Born – Roberto Sendoya Escobar
Pablo Escobar was the most notorious drug lord the world has ever seen. He became one of the ten richest men on the planet and controlled 80 per cent of…
The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele’s hell – Eva Mozes Kor
The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.
Me – Elton John
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the smash-hit film Rocketman. The result is Me –…
Before We Were Yours – Lisa Wingate
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals, in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the…
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family – Garrard Conley
About the book: The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about…
Educated – Tara Westover
An extraordinary memoir about a woman’s discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
My Mother, the Psychopath: Growing up in the shadow of a monster – Olivia Rayne
About the book: What do you do when the person you’re meant to trust the most in the world is the one trying to destroy you? ‘When people met her…
This is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor – Adam Kay
About the book: Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more…
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
Inspired by a true story, Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites was shortlisted for The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Guardian First Book Award and The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards.