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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics
'At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong...' In 1803 the convict...
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
A gripping portrait of the man considered the last universal genius that takes us on a mind-expanding journey through the history of ideas 'The Leibniz biography for our time. It...
Maggie: In her own words
'Delving into the pages of Maggie is rather like straying into her boudoir.' -Jane Fraser, Weekend Australian 'She has been role model, taste guru, and surrogate media guardian for many...
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia
Winner of the Canberra Critics' Circle Memoir/History Award 2024 As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk...
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer
Winner of the 2014 National Biography Award 'An engrossing biography of a fascinating and fearless modern woman.' - Professor Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University In a period when most ladies...
Birthday Letters
'To read [ Birthday Letters ] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends'. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance...
El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzman
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Living on a Thin Line
The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour,...
The Lady in the Van
For fifteen years, the recalcitrant Miss Shepherd lived in her broken-down van on Alan Bennett's driveway in Camden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an...
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.?An...
And What Have You Done Lately
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Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists
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Sis, Don't Settle: How to Stay Smart in Matters of the Heart
By day, Faith Jenkins is the host of the nationally syndicated TV show Divorce Court; by night, she's a happily married newlywed who navigated these dating streets for years before...
Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000...
Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction
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Kathleen and Frank
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Faithless
This is no ordinary parish, and no ordinary priest - a true story of poverty, haunting, exorcism, birth, death and murder. Seth was a priest. He served for 10 years...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky...
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric...
Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and
A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society-in science, politics, art, and more-transformative. By the author and host...
None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy
None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories...
None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy
None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories...
Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us
'SUCH AN INCREDIBLE READ' ZOE BALL'ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST INSPIRING BOOKS' HOLLY WILLOUGHBYWith a foreword by 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, and including chapters on Rose and...
Andy Murray (A Life Story)
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Andy Murray: tennis player, sports icon, Olympian. Get the inside track on one of history's most spectacular athletes! A Life Story: this thrilling series throws readers directly into the lives...
If My Heart Could Talk: A Story of Family, Faith, and Miracles
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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters.Here's what readers are saying:'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' 'A wonderful record of a...
Henri Peyre: His Life in Letters
Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair...
Faithless
This is no ordinary parish, and no ordinary priest - a true story of poverty, haunting, exorcism, birth, death and murder. Seth was a priest. He served for 10 years...
Magic Of The Mask
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Journeys into Night
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Student One Pound Meals: Budget Food for Late Nights and Lazy Mornings
All the recipes in this book have been taken from Miguel's previously published One Pound Meals series. Eat well on a tight budget and a busy schedule with Instagram chef...
None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy
None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories...
Edward Thomas: A Portrait
Edward Thomas 1878-1917, published author, critic, and essayist, died at 39, a casualty of World War I. At the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost, Thomas began to write poetry...
The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-Terrorism
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The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland
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Smithy
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Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson
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Faces Places & Barely Human Races
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Tested: The remarkable power of resolve - reflections and
Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. When Pat Cummins unexpectedly became Australia's 47th Test captain at age 28,...
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest
For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous...
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last
"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential...
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that
You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient...
Wernher Von Braun: Crusader for Space: A Biographical Memoir
This new edition of a biographical memoir describes the antecedents of the Apollo drama, based upon close personal and professional relationships between von Braun and the authors. Extracts from interviews,...
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in
The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi,
This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-cultureThe Dead Don't Need...
Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution
As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, he had...