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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

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Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja....
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

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Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

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Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow

Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow

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Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world...
John Winston Howard

John Winston Howard

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Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland

Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland

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Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

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Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America

A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America

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Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...
Margaret Whitlam

Margaret Whitlam

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Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

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Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched,...
The Dry and Lawless Years

The Dry and Lawless Years

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Hitler: A Global Biography

Hitler: A Global Biography

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that...
The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance

The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance

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Author: Simon Doubleday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults...
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough

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Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday...
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia

When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia

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Author: Robert Carmichael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' Jon Swain, writer...
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia

Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia

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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

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The Memoirs of General Grivas

The Memoirs of General Grivas

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My Reminiscences of East Africa [Rare]

My Reminiscences of East Africa [Rare]

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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

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Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
John Philip (1775-1851): Mission, Race And Politics In South Africa

John Philip (1775-1851): Mission, Race And Politics In South Africa

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Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss

Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss

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Author: Harry Cole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving prime minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year 'An insightful...
Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography

Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography

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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

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Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
The Cameron Diaries [Signed]

The Cameron Diaries [Signed]

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Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History

Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History

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Home And Abroad

Home And Abroad

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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren

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Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From an Iconic Monarch

Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From an Iconic Monarch

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Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most important cultural and political icons in modern British history. As the United...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer

Joe Biden: American Dreamer

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The War Diaries Of Weary Dunlop: Java And The Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945

The War Diaries Of Weary Dunlop: Java And The Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945

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If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks

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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
Dick Hamer: The liberal Liberal

Dick Hamer: The liberal Liberal

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Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians

Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians

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Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate

Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate

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Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Author: Richard Brookhiser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 "Brookhiser has done the seemingly impossible: He has written a life of Lincoln that is fresh, original, and ideal for those...
John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation

John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation

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Author: Harlow Giles Unger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

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Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
The Temptress: The scandalous life of  Alice, Countess de Janze

The Temptress: The scandalous life of Alice, Countess de Janze

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Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

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Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

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Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...