Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Second World War, love refuses to be silenced — From Betty With Love chronicles a deeply personal wartime romance through...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, witnessing the tremors that would shake the world into war — Leonard Woolf's Downhill All...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of American political history stands one of the most captivating presidencies of the twentieth century, and A...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom a humble tin-mining settlement on the muddy confluence of two rivers to a thriving colonial metropolis, the story of Kuala Lumpur's rise is...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the glittering yet treacherous court of Louis XIV, where ambition and survival were inextricably entwined, one of history's most scandalous episodes unfolded —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the first half of the nineteenth century, London blazed as the intellectual and creative capital of the world — and London Lights...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the pen name Carter Brown lived Alan Yates — one of the most prolific and commercially successful crime writers of the twentieth century —...

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Edition: 2nd impressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingPublished anonymously and with unflinching candour, Streetwalker: An Autobiographical Account of Prostitution presents a raw, first-person...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Jacket protected in mylar sleeveBehind the serene facade of the bamboo curtain lay a world of unimaginable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore photography captured the Australian landscape, a generation of pioneering artists wielded brush and pen to document a continent utterly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingStanding sentinel over the River Thames for nearly a thousand years, the Tower of London is not merely...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore he became immortalised as Australia's most beloved bush poet, A.B. Banjo Paterson served on the front lines...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an era when power was worn like a jeweled crown and magnificence was a political act, The Golden Age...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the earliest colonial dispensaries to the modern pharmaceutical landscape, Pharmacy in Australia: The National Experience chronicles two centuries of medical and professional history in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn 1860, two men set out to conquer the unknown heart of Australia — and their names would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an age when power was worn like a jewel and courts blazed with intrigue, The Princes transports readers into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn one of the most harrowing chapters of the Second World War, Sandakan: The Last March chronicles the...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dj is torn, tanned pages.Few figures in twentieth-century Australian public life embodied the quiet force...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedOne of Australia's most controversial military figures, General Gordon Bennett commanded the 8th Division during the catastrophic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of mid-twentieth-century American social science stands a landmark study that permanently reshaped how scholars understand the making...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the very heart of the twentieth-century art world stood one man whose vision, courage, and unwavering belief in the avant-garde...

Edition: Second 1952 Edition.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most chilling and meticulously researched political biographies ever written, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the vast and unforgiving skies of the Pacific theatre, Australian airmen waged a desperate and largely forgotten campaign against...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodNestled on a hilltop in Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs, Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar School stands as a monument to six decades of educational vision, resilience,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the grand tradition of the solitary Victorian traveller, Journey to Kars chronicles Philip Glazebrook's remarkable overland expedition through Turkey, retracing the routes of 19th-century...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingStep back in time to the sun-baked streets and shadowed laneways of old Melbourne, where the city's strangest...