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Letters to His Family
These letters and sketches by Stanford White were left by Lawrence Grant White, when he died in 1956. He had mounted them in beautiful leather-bound books, each impetuously scribbled letter...
Tales from a Bondi Vet: An international hit TV series
Currently starring in CBS'S hit series DR CHRIS: PET VET in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!,...
A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition
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The book titled A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition by the author Michael J Ritt, Jr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Paris or Die
Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's story lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a...
Ngoanyana: A South African Story
Ngoanyana: A South African story is a vivid portrayal of growing up White in apartheid-era South Africa. John Nieuwenhuysen's privileged upbringing on a South African farm as the grandson of...
Diaries: 1967-87
For over three decades Roy Sstrong has teased, tantalised, amused and sometimes enraged the British public, firstly in his capacity as the Director of two great cultural institutions, the National...
Well Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives
A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield,...
The Letters
The painter, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer, and this collection of his letters provides both a self-portrait and a picture of the contemporary cultural scene. The...
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family s history until the death of his parents in...
Driving with Dead People
At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera...
Sky Swimming: Reflections on auto/biography, people and place
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife-black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the...
In Search of Silence: A memoir of finding life after loss
Winner of Red Magazine's Book of the Year 2019 'Raw, poetic and breathtaking' Fearne Cotton 'It is rare to find an author who writes with such authenticity, empathy and humour....
Committed: A Love Story
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when...
A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this...
Goodbye Soldier
In "Goodbye Soldier" the central pool of artists, now rechristened the combined services entertainment, complete with Gunner Miligan, now rechristened Lance-Bambardier, makes its way across Europe, via romantic Rome and...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots' 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 "A writer to be reckoned with." -Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated...
I Choose To Live
I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company...
It's All News to Me
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Jeremy Vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in 2012 clocks up a quarter of a century at the BBC. In It's All News to...
Peggy
Pauline Neville evokes her family's recent past and recaptures the moving friendship between two cousins. This revealing memoir is also a meditation about the nature of dying and the value...
North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots
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Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her...
What's Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients
What goes into the making of a chef, a restau rant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a differ ence on the plate, what makes them good in the...
Enriched re-defining wealth: A CEO's Story from Business Success to
If you're working harder, but enjoying work less; questioning whether your current level of success is worth the sacrifices you are making; keen to leave a legacy beyond your career...
Wildfire: My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy
Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to...
A Human Deadline: A Story of Life, Death, Hope and House Arrest
We were in the doctor's office and it sounded like something out of a B Grade movie when I said: 'Give it to me straight... how long have I got?'...
Red Dust Road
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding...
Always Unreliable: Memoirs
Clive James sharp, brilliant and outrageously funny memoirs together in one volume.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet a very young Clive James. One dressed in shorts. His hilarious adventures growing up...
Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher...
Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way
The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
Exit!
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Exit! is the story of Grizelda Grootboom life of prostitution and her ultimate escape from it all. Grizelda's life was dramatically changed when she was gang raped at the age...
Salvage - A Personal Odyssey
The story starts with an account at the age of 17 of the 'Dara' tragedy. It then covers the ten years Captain Ian Tew spent with the Selco Salvage in...
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival
THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long time' - RED 'illuminating' METRO Haley McGee is in...
The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie
Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993. Two months after their marriage, a devastating car wreck left Krickitt with a massive...
Seams Unlikely: The Inspiring True Life Story of Nancy Zieman
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Millions of women learned to sew while watching the inimitable Nancy Zieman on public television's, Sewing with Nancy. Many of them have Googled phrases like "stroke Nancy Zieman" in an...
A Man Named Dave
A Man Named Dave is the gripping conclusion to this inspirational trilogy. With extraordinary generosity of spirit, Dave takes us on a journey into his past. At last he confronts...
The Book of Love: Writers And Thier Love Letters
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The late John Cheever once insisted that saving a letter is like trying to preserve a kiss. Luckily for us, the loved ones of great writers ranging from Sappho to...
Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's
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"It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast "60 Minutes." Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck,...
The Consultant
Turns out everyone can use a friendly neighbourhood gangster in their life now and again. Jay Malkoun isn't the type of man who lets a little thing like being blown...
My Family and Other Animals
The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood in Corfu by British conservationist Gerald Durrell Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting...
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
A breathtaking memoir and an extraordinary testament to the human spirit. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia
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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....
Buster
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Thousands of lives have been saved by this spaniel. He is a best friend in dog s clothing. An RAF dog with his mossy...
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost
The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where the sky is deep blue, forever blue, and there...