Ned Kelly, born into a large family of Irish settlers in Australia, grew up bad. Cool and defiant, he graduated from horse-stealing to cattle-thieving to 'robbery under arms'. Then, at 23, he shot three policeman dead. For the next two years, Ned was on the run - the most wanted criminal in the colony of Victoria, the man who would 'rid Australia of its corrupt, violent police'. This is the story of Ned's life and of how, despite being a known murderer, he became one of Australia's greatest heroes.

Ned Kelly (Who Was...?)

Charlie Boxer

Biographies & Memoirs

Short Books, London

No one ever imagined that a weak, skinny boy like Horatio Nelson would be able to survive the hardships of life at sea. But he did. In fact he grew up to become a great naval hero, the man who saved Britain from invasion by the dreaded Napoleon. Nelson was someone who always did things his own way. He lost an eye and an arm in battle, but never let that hold him back. He was brilliant on ships, clumsy on land, ferocious in battle, knew fear but overcame it, and never, ever took no for an answer. This is his story.

Admiral Nelson (Who Was...?)

Children's Books

SAM LLEWELLYN

Biographies

Book by JANE FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL

Good Granny Guide, The: Or How to be a Modern Grandmother

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sir John Franklin (Who Was...?)

Beardsley, Martyn

History

Young Charles Dickens's happy childhood came to a sudden end when his father was jailed for debt and, aged 12, he was sent to work in a factory making shoe polish. By his mid-twenties, he was on the verge of becoming the most popular novelist the world has ever known, creating hundreds of unforgettable characters.

Charles Dickens (Who Was...?)

Andrew Billen

Who Was Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Amanda Mitchison

Science, Nature & How It Works

Who Was the Duke of Wellington

Joshua Doder

"Ducks in a Row" is a humorous dictionary celebrating the new and absurd language of Office English, or Offlish - workplace slang, common jargon, bogus phrases and all the myriad ridiculous idioms that we use to impress and confuse our colleagues and to climb the greasy pole of corporate advancement. It is a book to delight, amuse, instruct and entertain anyone who has ever worked in, or ever will work in, an office.

Ducks in a Row

Humor & Entertainment

Carl Newbrook

Humor

How often have you found yourself talking wistfully with friends of relocating to the country, as if it will offer a magical answer to everything wrong with city living - fresher air, better schools, an altogether less stressful, more wholesome existence? Beware! Most of these assumptions are based on memories of blissful weekends spent in a round of cream teas and blazing log fires...You know that Aga you coveted? It will soon reveal itself to be a living, breathing devil-spawn waging a personal vendetta against you. And that fantasy about becoming a self-sufficient, trug-toting son of the soil? If you've got the patience to make it through to the end of the baffling seed packet instructions, you'll be doing well. As for those children - do they spend all their time outside, fishing with jam-jars on string? Do they hell; they're slumped indoors watching telly, cursing the day they were wrenched away from their friends in town...

Reasons Not to Move to the Country

Rumbold, Judy

If you've ever been single you've probably dated. If you've dated you've probably dated more than once. If you've dated more than once, you have run a very real risk of becoming part of that small but expanding group of people who have had the unfortunate but often entertaining (for their friends) experience of dating a psycho. What constitutes a psycho? How do you know if you've ever dated one? How can you tell if you're dating one right now? And if you are, do you love it? Or want to run away and join the witness protection program? All these questions and more will be answered in this hilarious new book - a collection of true-life horror stories from those heroic daters who have stared relationship-weirdness in the eye and come away with their sense of humour intact.

Ever Dated a Psycho?

Diddridge, PaulM

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