2024 releases

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These Heavy Black Bones

$39.99
*Listed as one of TIME's 18 Black leaders working to end the racial wealth gap* In Kenya the pool was green and surrounded by concrete so hot it burnt the...
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The House of Being

$26.95
An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey “Searching and intimate, this impresses.”—Publishers Weekly In a...
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Jilya

$34.99
How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology A powerful memoir that explores how one Indigenous woman from the Pilbara transformed psychology From humble beginnings in the remote...
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Both Not Half

$34.99
A groundbreaking and revolutionary look at the mixed-heritage experience by actor and filmmaker Jassa Ahluwalia 'This guy has better Punjabi than both of us and he's only half Punjabi.' Only....
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Briefly Perfectly Human:

$36.99
Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death, from death doula Alua Arthur THE NEW YORK TIMES...
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Trails and Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie Chan

$38.99
'I laughed, gulped and cried as I read Susie's stories of battling through some of the hardest races on this planet as well as some of the hardest moments in...
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We Will Not Be Saved

$34.99
A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest 'I'm here to tell you my story, which is also the story of my people and the story of this...
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System and Pocketed $40 Million

$34.99
'Tanya Smith's story is unbelievably bold, captivating, and moving. Never Saw Me Coming is a wild ride from start to finish. She is my hero' ISSA RAE The true story of how...
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Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir

$36.99
In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse Growing up in poverty in...
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Hip-Hop Is History

$34.99
'Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed chronological retelling of the genre's story with occasionally hair-raising memoir' Guardian When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural...
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The Bookshop Woman:

$34.99
The Smash-Hit Japanese Bestseller 'An irresistible treat for all bibliophiles' Waterstones THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN IS A LOVE STORY, A LOVE STORY ABOUT BOOKS Nanako Hanada's life has not just flatlined,...
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Transitional

$22.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE FIRST BOOK AWARD 2024WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023- POLITICS 'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day...
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All My Bicycles

$32.95
In this nonlinear graphic memoir, Powerpaola uses bicycles she’s owned as a vehicle to explore the world, her relationships, her memories ― and herself. “A bicycle is a machine that...
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Road Home

$31.99
This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle’s memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his father discovered he was gay. "An emotionally resonant...
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My Battle of Hastings

$42.99
The new memoir in a triptych from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo in which she moves to Hastings to find a room of her own and immerses herself in...
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve

$36.99
A summoning cry to rid our lives of 'terrible men' and fight outdated patriarchal ideals by a young activist with more than 9 million followers The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first...
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The Martyr and the Red Kimono

$39.99
A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn...
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The Tale of a Wall

$42.99
A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts himThis is the story of a wall that somehow chose me...
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In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

$34.99
"One of the finest, most eloquent and painfully honest memoirs of the Palestinian exile and displacement."–New Statesman An intimate memoir of the 1948 Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian...
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Legitimate Kid: A Memoir

$55.00
A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter. Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a...
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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

$37.99
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir...
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A Naga Odyssey: Visier's Long Way Home

$34.99
An updated edition of this remarkable story, with a new postscript. Visier Meyasetsu Sany, his family and fellow villagers of Khonoma, fled for their lives to the jungles of Nagaland...
Mourning a Breast

Mourning a Breast

$34.95
Mourning a Breast was heralded as the first Chinese-language book to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer In 1989, the...
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Walking through Fire

$29.99
The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's...
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A Daughter of Isis

$29.99
The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words Volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist. In A Daughter of Isis,...
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Not Your China Doll

$55.00
The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong The definitive story of Anna May Wong, the first East-Asian Hollywood star, and how she blazed a trail for the Chinese...
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Troubled

$36.99
A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite...
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Safe Space

$34.99
My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community This is a book for anyone who believes that racism has no place in Australia’s future and...
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Growing Up Indian in Australia

$32.99
Vibrant, moving and diverse stories of shape-shifting between cultures. 'To be Indian growing up in Australia is to tread the narrow line between here and there, to constantly code-switch and...
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Unearthing

$39.99
A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and...
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The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

$49.99
The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to...
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Is That You‚ Ruthie?

$19.99
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a dormitory girl's...
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I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

$29.99
Further conversations with my psychiatrist The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with...
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Fragile Creatures

$34.99
A POWERFUL DEBUT FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY VOICE, GENTLE IN THE FACE OF EXTREMITY Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness and a euthanasia drug locked in a box under her...
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The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

$34.99
Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody’s Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author’s ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother,...
Hana: The audacity to be free

Hana: The audacity to be free

$34.95
'The constant search for autonomy and freedom is in every woman.'Hana Assafiri is a much-loved and revered social activist and radical entrepreneur. Through the medium of food and dining in...
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Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia

$32.99
A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present'My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood...
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Long Walk To Freedom

$26.99
'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times...
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey

Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey

$34.99
Arman is just a boy when he is forced to leave his home and embark on the most extraordinary journey. Separated from family and friends, he travels across mountains, land...
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Because I Love Him

$27.99
‘In all of the madness stood two addicts: one severely addicted to alcohol and drugs, and the other just as addicted to the addict… In my sickness ― the sickness...
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If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed

$32.99
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a...
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

$36.99
A searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his life, thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him - from internationally renowned writer and Booker...
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

$24.99
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal...
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Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

$24.99
A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK...
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Mom and Me and Mom

$24.99
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

$24.99
A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya...
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The Heart Of A Woman

$24.99
From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce...
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Gather Together In My Name

$24.99
The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are...
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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

$24.99
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' – BARACK...
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Hine Toa

$34.99
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements 'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia Grace In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered...