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A Different Kind of Power: The internationally bestselling memoir

A Different Kind of Power: The internationally bestselling memoir

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#1 New Zealand bestseller #1 Amazon bestseller #2 Audible bestseller #3 New York Times bestseller #3 Sunday Times bestseller #4 Australian bestseller From the former prime minister of New Zealand,...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and

Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and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An extraordinary treasure trove Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the fascinating people...
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

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'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The...
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

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"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't...
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

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'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown' Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated' The Sunday Times 'For real intel, [The Crown] can't come close to...
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea

Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea

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The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem 'My Country.' 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains...' Though many Australians...
James Cameron's Titanic

James Cameron's Titanic

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James Cameron's Titanic chronicles the cinematic re-creation of the most legendary ocean disaster of all time as seen through the eyes of a master storyteller. Set against the ship's fateful...
Uptown Girl: A Memoir

Uptown Girl: A Memoir

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Keith Haring: The Story of His Life

Keith Haring: The Story of His Life

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Nothing Like a Dame: Dame Phyllis Frost

Nothing Like a Dame: Dame Phyllis Frost

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Life & Crimes: True Stories from Australia's Underbelly

Life & Crimes: True Stories from Australia's Underbelly

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As a Woman - Writing Women's Lives

As a Woman - Writing Women's Lives

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Sister Sister

Sister Sister

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Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

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George MacDonald

George MacDonald

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Heartbreak Corner: A Story of the Tully, Durack and Other Pioneer Families of South-West Queensland

Heartbreak Corner: A Story of the Tully, Durack and Other Pioneer Families of South-West Queensland

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Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire

Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire

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Sketches from Memory: People and Places in the Heart of Our Paris

Sketches from Memory: People and Places in the Heart of Our Paris

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Stories of Hope

Stories of Hope

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Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

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The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

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The Sunday Times bestseller 'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new...
Split Second: A Fascinating Read From Australia's Favourite  Legal Eagle

Split Second: A Fascinating Read From Australia's Favourite Legal Eagle

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Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

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Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing A Guardian Book...
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm

Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm

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Jeremy Clarkson takes us into the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of his new life as gentleman farmer in this thigh-slapping collection of stories from a year on Clarkson's Farm Welcome to...
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

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The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat...
Australian Gospel: A Family Saga

Australian Gospel: A Family Saga

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From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them 'Wild applause. Brave, funny and true.' David...
Unveiled

Unveiled

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The incredible true story of how a street-fighting petty criminal, who was kicked out of school at fourteen, became one of Australia's most celebrated and successful portrait artists. Raised amid...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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'A howl from the heart of our age' Richard Flanagan 'A unique and urgently needed book.' Naomi Klein 'A powerful, uncomfortable but thought-provoking read.' Dua Lipa 'Clear, elegant and devastatingly...
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

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A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school...
Question 7

Question 7

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**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

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Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the...
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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The incredible autobiography of Yeonmi Park- a North Korean defector who escaped across the Gobi desert and is now a leading spokesperson for human rights at just 24 years old...
No Name in the Street

No Name in the Street

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A short, powerful memoir from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a...
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

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A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New Statesman I would never have chosen this path, but...
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more

Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane

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The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller - a celebration of love in all its forms After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set...
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner

H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel

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**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER** 'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and...
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

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The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin...
We Of The Never-Never

We Of The Never-Never

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A special Vintage Classics edition of the beloved Australian bestseller In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to...
The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics

The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics

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'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 Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines

The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines

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'Far and away the most profound, beautiful, and inspiring nonfiction book published in New Zealand in 2024.' - Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'Extraordinary ... enthralling' - The Daily Telegraph (UK) 'Brilliant'...
Bookshop Dogs

Bookshop Dogs

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Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many...
The Use of Photography

The Use of Photography

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The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her...
A Very Easy Death

A Very Easy Death

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A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline

Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline

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'Prepare to be riveted by this extraordinary account from one of Australia's elite warriors. His firsthand experiences vividly recounted offer an unparalleled glimpse into the courage, strategy, and sacrifice required...
Shadows on the Road: Life at the Heart of the Peloton, from US Postal to Team Sky

Shadows on the Road: Life at the Heart of the Peloton, from US Postal to Team Sky

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The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years

The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years

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