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Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice

Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice

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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...
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of

Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of

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Winner of the University Of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors. This is a...
Bridge Over Troubled Dreams

Bridge Over Troubled Dreams

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The emotional stories behind Delta Goodrem's sixth studio album. In her first-ever book, Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem shares the intimate stories behind each of the tracks on her sixth studio...
So French

So French

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From Dany's childhood in post-war France, to her migration to Australia and rise to culinary success - this is truly a book to devour! Acclaimed restaurateur Dany Chouet helped shape...
A Secret Gift

A Secret Gift

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A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship. A book for our times, sharing stories...
What Happened

What Happened

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A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful...
A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945

A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945

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Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on...
The Mouth that Roared

The Mouth that Roared

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Award-winning writer, Robert Hillman, has collaborated with one of Australia's best-known youth outreach workers and social campaigners, to bring his story to the public in that wonderful storytelling style that...
Semi-Educated

Semi-Educated

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Following on from the success of her first memoir, A Year in the Mud the Toast and the Tears, popular South Australian author Georgie Brooks give us Semi-Educated, a laugh-out-loud...
Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want

Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want

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"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."- Washington Post "An engaging debut...
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life

Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life

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A revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip. One of the most recognisable men in the United Kingdom, Prince Philip has been consort to Queen Elizabeth...
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

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"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or...
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

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Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of

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The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian , Times , Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer...
The Cure for Sleep

The Cure for Sleep

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'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun 'She is fearless in her depiction of female desire - I...
The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets Mucky

The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets Mucky

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Following a drunken misunderstanding Simon Dawson gave up his job in the city, moved to the wilds of Exmoor and became an accidental self-sufficient smallholder with an array of animals....
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

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'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . ....
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that

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'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...
The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

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'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The Stirrings is a pleasure and a shock' Eimear McBride...
Marrying Anita

Marrying Anita

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You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner...
A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories

A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories

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What bush life was really like before the days of motorbike and helicopters. Brian Taylor has lived in the Queensland bush almost all his life, and knows it well: the...
Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics

Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics

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Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told...
From Manassas To Appomattox: Memoirs Of The Civil War In America

From Manassas To Appomattox: Memoirs Of The Civil War In America

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father

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"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I...
I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen

I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen

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Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John Henry's diagnosis of nonverbal autism was devastating, even though Allison knew...
Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal  that

Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that

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As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he'd never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all...
No Easy Walk to Freedom: Speeches, Letters and Other Writings

No Easy Walk to Freedom: Speeches, Letters and Other Writings

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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...
The Oceana And Other Works Of James Harrington: Collected, Methodized

The Oceana And Other Works Of James Harrington: Collected, Methodized

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...
Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

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From the author of The Child that Books Built , a rapturous history of the amazing achievements of British engineers. Britain is the only country in the world to have...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

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The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir--as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels--about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and

Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and

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An extraordinary treasure trove Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
And Finally...: Weird and wonderful stories told at the end of the

And Finally...: Weird and wonderful stories told at the end of the

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And Finally ... is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best ...and finally segments of...
Inherited Touch

Inherited Touch

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There is a risk in telling another's story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part...
Southerly Volume 67 No.s 1-2: Elizabeth Webby

Southerly Volume 67 No.s 1-2: Elizabeth Webby

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This issue is a tribute to a brilliant career. There are contributions from academic colleagues, many of them grateful ex-students. There are contributions from senior writers who remain grateful for...
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back

When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back

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'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of GRIEF IS THE THING...