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Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

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A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting...
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

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The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His...
Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman

Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman

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For fans of books like Waiter Rant , and all those who have always wondered how the other half lives, comes this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud memoir from a New York City...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

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The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top...
The Fame Game: An Insider's Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes

The Fame Game: An Insider's Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes

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Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II shares insightful tales of his remarkable four-decade career plotting and overseeing fame, success, crisis and spinning for seminal talents at the...
In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing

In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing

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The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee...
The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster

The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster

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'Very few people in parliament can match Nadhim's childhood experience, his understanding of international affairs, his skills as a businessman and his passion for politics' Rory Stewart 'From Baghdad to...
Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant

Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant

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'Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for...
As the Crow Flies: My Journey to Ironman World Champion

As the Crow Flies: My Journey to Ironman World Champion

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Millions of triathletes around the world know Craig Alexander as 'Crowie' - the formidable triathlete whose sheer talent and disciplined work ethic have earned him three Ironman (R) World Championships...
The Other Side of Charm: Your Memoir

The Other Side of Charm: Your Memoir

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In The Other Side of Charm, you will experience just how easy it is to be seduced by a psychopath. You will also come to understand just how difficult it...
Not On My Patch, Lad: More Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby

Not On My Patch, Lad: More Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby

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Mike Pannett used to work the beat in Central London - tackling drugs and knife crime - so when he moved back to Yorkshire he was hoping for a quieter...
Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War

Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War

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The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

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"With When Death Becomes Life , Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the...
Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs

Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs

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A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith...
Out of Character: From Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey, and

Out of Character: From Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey, and

$37.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey : it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to...
The Point of Distraction

The Point of Distraction

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A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces. 'A brief yet elegant excursion into the nature and execution of...
When Nothing Feels Real: A journey into the mystery illness of

When Nothing Feels Real: A journey into the mystery illness of

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Journalist Nathan Dunne was living the life of his dreams in London until, one evening, he jumped into a lake for a swim. When he emerged, his identity was simply...
King of the Desert: One man's world-record motorcycle crossing of

King of the Desert: One man's world-record motorcycle crossing of

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Nick Arley's motorcycling journey began racing around paddocks on an old Honda. From the moment he first rode a motorbike at age eleven it was destined to become a lifelong...
There Must Be More: Finding purpose in the face of the unimaginable

There Must Be More: Finding purpose in the face of the unimaginable

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In 2021, Kellie Finlayson, with a three-month-old daughter, found herself staring down the barrel of a terminal diagnosis: Stage 4 bowel cancer. She was 25. Incredibly, Kellie is still fighting...
Out of the Blue: Everything this Wiggle journey has taught me

Out of the Blue: Everything this Wiggle journey has taught me

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Music is brain food and emotional sustenance for little ones. It's audible beauty. Want to give something special to your kids? Surround them with beauty and inspiration. Out of the...
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A memoir of saying the unsayable

Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A memoir of saying the unsayable

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'Every word of Candice Chung's memoir is brave. Even the title Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You is a triumphant declaration that unshackles both the author and the reader...
Cocaine Cassie: Setting the record straight

Cocaine Cassie: Setting the record straight

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On Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 22-year- old Cassandra Sainsbury, a personal trainer from Adelaide, South Australia was arrested at Eldorado International Airport in Bogota, Columbia.In her luggage she had been...
Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a blow-up doll

Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a blow-up doll

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Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a blow-up doll is a book that shows us that things that are sparkly, glamorous and smooth on the outside can often be a...
The Strength Within

The Strength Within

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December 1979, Annie was three months pregnant with her second child and in excruciating pain. She couldn't walk, couldn't stand, couldn't sleep. In just a year, Annie had gone from...
Cher: The Memoir, Part One: The global number 1 bestseller

Cher: The Memoir, Part One: The global number 1 bestseller

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Part One of a Two Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor 'A rock 'n' roll memoir like no other' Daily Mail 'A gutsy account of tenacity and perseverance...Cher's...
Karen: A Brother Remembers

Karen: A Brother Remembers

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New York Times Bestseller One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 People's Best Books of May 2025 On July 1, 1975, Kelsey Grammer's younger sister, eighteen-year-old Karen Grammer,...
My Mother's Eyes

My Mother's Eyes

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The disappearance of Lyn Dawson captured the world's attention. But she was far more than just the teacher's wife. Now, in this brave, emotionally powerful memoir, Lyn's daughter reclaims their...
I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

$75.00 AUD$63.75 AUD
Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of...
After You

After You

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Natascha McElhone was away filming in LA, with her two sons and pregnant with her third child when she received news that her beloved husband, Martin, had died suddenly of...
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the

The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the

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*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal...
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

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A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES...
Out of Character: From Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey, and

Out of Character: From Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey, and

$37.99 AUD$32.29 AUD
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey : it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to...
Stronger: Fighting Back After the Boston Marathon Bombing

Stronger: Fighting Back After the Boston Marathon Bombing

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When Jeff Bauman woke up on 16 April 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did...
Memoir of an Accidental Ethicist

Memoir of an Accidental Ethicist

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This is an insider's account of the regulation of the medical profession in Australia and key issues in medical ethics and professional conduct that continue to bedevil medical practice. As...
Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen

Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen

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'Put a new pan down. Season the bass. Always from a height. The bass goes in. A monk looks done. Give it the cake tester. It's barely warm. Another minute....
View from the Second Row

View from the Second Row

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The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....
Small Fry

Small Fry

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Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley....
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

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'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire...
The Power Of Hope

The Power Of Hope

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A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we...
Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the

Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the

$39.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood....
Cher: The Memoir, Part One: The global number 1 bestseller

Cher: The Memoir, Part One: The global number 1 bestseller

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Part One of a Two Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor 'A rock 'n' roll memoir like no other' Daily Mail 'A gutsy account of tenacity and perseverance...Cher's...
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom

Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom

$32.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
"As a criminal barrister, you work with the material you get: a junkie shoplifter with thirty-five previous convictions and four packs of Lidl's frozen chicken stuffed down his trousers is...
Get the Girls Out: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Letting Loose

Get the Girls Out: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Letting Loose

$29.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
Lucy's openhearted interest in the world has taken her from jillarooing on a cattle farm to maternity hospitals in Ethiopia, from marshalling a cross-country carnival in northern Uganda to CEO...
Chameleon Days

Chameleon Days

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In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The...
I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

$75.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of...
Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary Witches

Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary Witches

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In this enchanted sibling to the cult classic Modern Tarot , literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea returns to her magical roots, offering stories, little-known history, traditions, rituals, and spells...
Legitimate Kid: A Memoir

Legitimate Kid: A Memoir

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"Aida Rodriguez is part of the next wave of talented comedic storytellers that I dreamt about when I was trying to break down barriers in the industry. Besides being a...
In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing

In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing

$24.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee...