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Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop...

'I listened to my family's narratives and my ancestors began to emerge in an almost life-like way.' - Cindy Solonec This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the...

WINNER, 1996 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS, HISTORICAL & CRITICAL STUDIES AWARD New Edition The true story of the Aboriginal resistance fighter, Jandamarra, whose legend is etched into the Australian...

'It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go...

In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after...

A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight...

The book titled A Woman Named Jackie by the author C.David Heymann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes' thought in the light of the most important research currently being produced by historians, philosophers, and political scientists. His life and...

The book titled Memoirs by the author Kingsley Amis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of Hudson Taylor is one of adventure and excitement - of improbable answers to prayer, opposition from the establishment and triumphs of faith. Even more interesting is the...

Reprint of 1961 First Edition. Sonora Carver was an American entertainer, most notable as one of the first female horse divers. Carver answered an ad placed by "Doc" William Frank...

'Full of practical advice on how to help you survive and thrive in an uncertain world.' MICHAEL MOSLEY 'Tells you how to duck and dive when the unexpected surprises are...

Excellent for devotional reading, sermon illustrations, and bulletin inserts, as well as for historical or biographical research.

The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood...

Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first,...

When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Henry Fraser is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met' J.K. Rowling 'What a story of transformation, inner power and inspiration' Jonny Wilkinson The...

The Tibetans refer to Moso country as 'The Country of Daughters' because of their unique matrilineal society. In Moso culture, daughters are favoured children. There is no word for father,...

'Full of practical advice on how to help you survive and thrive in an uncertain world.' MICHAEL MOSLEY 'Tells you how to duck and dive when the unexpected surprises are...

'Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a...

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-culture The Dead Don't...

The book titled First Man by the author James Hansen. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From Sailor to Legend - the story of Captain James Cook Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Written with colour, sweep and the...

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young...

With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cezanne to be published...

Thanks for the Mammaries is an honest recount of author Kate Gale's journey with cancer. After being diagnosed at the young age of twenty-seven with breast cancer, she fought a...

Tony Thomas's new essays pulverise "woke" causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC's bias. While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a...

Freud's 1915 essay "On Transience" recorded a summertime conversation with two unnamed companions-who were thought to be poet Rainer Maria Rilke and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas- Salom?. In "Freud's Requiem," their...

'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 . . ....

In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ' , it was signed by...

In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied...

Home and Dry in Normandy is the first of two books following the adventures of George and Donella East as they try to realise their dream of surviving a year...

'Extraordinary. A fabulous read' SIMON SCHAMA 'Wonderful. He writes with eloquence and wit' NICHOLAS HYTNER 'Fascinating' EIMEAR McBRIDE Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors....

The book titled Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by the author Jacki Lyden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Arnold Wienolt - MP, lion hunter and intelligence agent - was a larger-than-life action hero whose eccentricities were legendary. He once hired a circus tent when campaigning for parliament and...

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dimitri Shostakovich drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Using much material never previously published in...

The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and controversial isolationist in World War II; his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was also famous, the author of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST * One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami. "The most exceptional book about grief I've...

This is a rich collection of John Updike's more recent essays, critical writings and reflections. Wide ranging, incisive, witty and always superbly written, "More Matter" has something to say about...

Memories of friends past are as important as, and more sustaining than, memories of times past. Geoffrey Wheatcroft found his thoughts turning again and again to a number of people...

The book titled Notes of a Non-conspirator by the author Allan Wynn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Antonia White is best known for her masterpiece Frost in May, for having come back from Bedlam and madness, and for the public feud between her daughters over the editing...

A moving work of startling bravery and candour of a family dislocated and united by tragedy, and a beautiful and moving tribute to a son. In July 2012 Thomas Harding's...