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Stand By Your Man
Three powerful and engaging biographies of three former PM's wives - full of intrigue and revelation! Three powerful and engaging biographies of three former wives of Liberal prime ministers whose...
100 People Who are Screwing Up America
The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias delivers another bombshell--this time aimed at . . . 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America No preaching. No pontificating....
My Forbidden Face
Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her...
Drink Me
You don't fall in love with an alcoholic - you fall in love with a man. At least at first. Why do women fall for 'damaged' men? Why do women...
Last Night on Earth
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The internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer chronicles his life, the evolution of his art, and his professional and personal collaboration with Arnie Zane, who died in 1988.
Out Of It
Bill Frost was a talented and highly respected Times journalist. In this heartrending and intelligent memoir Bill's sister, Clare Campbell, tells of his struggle with addiction, his descent into the...
The Mask of Treachery: Anthony Blunt - The Most Dangerous Spy in
This book identifies Anthony Blunt as not the fourth man but the first man, who recruited everyone else into the net, but managed to convince his interviewers that he was...
Straight Up and Dirty
When Stephanie Klein hit her twenty-fourth birthday she thought she had everything she could possibly have wanted from life- A good job, a succesful husband, a Manhattan apartment and a...
Twilight Children: The True Story of Three Voices No One Heard - Until
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller One Child, comes a startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps...
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was...
The Tears of Strangers
A family memoir charting the political and social changes of Aborigines over the past 40 years. Stan Grant was born in 1963 into the Wiradjuri people -- a tribe of...
The Executive Brain
The Executive Brain is the first popular but rigorous book to explore the most 'human' region of the brain, the frontal lobes. Writing in a lively and accessible style, the...
That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein
The first biography of Vida Goldstein, one of the Australian heroes of first-wave feminism. This is the first biography of Vida Goldstein, one of Australia's remarkable women and one of...
It Is No Secret: The Story of a Stolen Child
With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a loud puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward ... I stared out the window as we slowly pulled out...
Winnie Mandela: A Life
Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few...
Ruth Ellis, My Mother
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On July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of the lover who jilted her, motor-racing driver David Blakely. Forty years on, her only surviving child, Georgie, recalls...
Layla's Story
The extraordinary account of a woman's loss of her baby girl on the day of her birth and the devastating grief that followed. A love story about a passionate and...
Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
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In 1766 Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- philosopher, novelist, composer, educational and political provocateur -- was on the run from intolerance, persecution, and enemies who decried him as a madman, dangerous to...
The F Word: Small Changes for Extraordinary Results Using Keto and Low
- Has your weight been ever-increasing over the years? - Have you tried every fad diet? - Are you tired of having no energy? - Are you struggling with cravings?...
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all...
Truth about My Fathers, the: A Memoir
Though she may have entered the world alone, Gaby Naher was destined to know the most genuine, heartfelt fathering a girl could hope for through her adoptive father, her beloved...
Wayward Women
For over 16 centuries, women have been undertaking great journeys and writing about their experiences, yet the traditional image of them is still that of an intrepid Victorian lady vigorously...
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome,
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The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the...
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of
'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' The generation that survived the second World War emerged with...
Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice
From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless...
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
A biography of America's first Renaissance man discusses Benjamin Franklin's diverse roles as a scientist, businessman, philosopher, writer, inventor, diplomat, politician, wit, and Founding Father.
No Easy Walk to Freedom: Speeches, Letters and Other Writings
The articles, letters and trial transcripts of one of the great icons of the twentieth century 'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have...
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep
One woman's harrowing story about life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After...
Wyndham Yella Fella
Reginal Birch remembers his childhood years growing up in the remote east Kimberley town of Wyndham. He captures many bittersweet experiences of his family as he brings to life the...
Somebody Else's Kids: They were problem children no one wanted ...
From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers 'One Child', 'Ghost Girl' and 'Twilight Children' comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children...
My Story
The gripping and shocking story of the woman who lost her husband, her partner and her two sons to the Melbourne gangland war. 'I have lived in a world of...
Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti
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As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly in the news. Once Mr. Gotti...
Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Goedel
This authoritative biography of Kurt Goedel relates the life of this most important logician of our time to the development of the field. Goedel's seminal achievements that changed the perception...
Before I Sleep: Memoirs of a Modern Police Commissioner: Memoirs of a
Widely esteemed as the Queensland Police Commissioner who in 1976 defied Premier Bjelke-Petersen, Ray Whitrod candidly reflects on a distinguished career from the Depression years as an Adelaide police cadet...
Into the Light
Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Collins Modern
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The...
Emma: a Recipe for Life
My name is Emma, my story is true and I am telling it because I want my children and my children's children to know what sort of life I have...