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Will James, the Last Cowboy Legend: The Last Cowboy Legend

Will James, the Last Cowboy Legend: The Last Cowboy Legend

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Will James, an author who in two dozen self-illustrated books and scores of articles, created one of the most popular and probably last cowboy legends of the American West. James...
Trapped: A Couple's Five Years of Hell in Dubai

Trapped: A Couple's Five Years of Hell in Dubai

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How Australian Marcus Lee and his wife, Julie, survived wrongful imprisonment, house arrest and five years of trials and tribulations in Dubai. In 2006 Marcus Lee moved to Dubai with...
Two Mums and a Dad

Two Mums and a Dad

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Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties...
Nobel Lectures

Nobel Lectures

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Times may change, but the dramas of existence don't. Nobel Minds attests to the power of literature to shape the world. Each year the Nobel Academy awards the Nobel Prize...
I'm Not Eating Any Of That Foreign Muck: Travels with me Dad

I'm Not Eating Any Of That Foreign Muck: Travels with me Dad

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One of the drawbacks of writing funny, irreverent and - worse yet - honest travel books is that you can't stop your parents from reading them. Because once they have...
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how

I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how

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The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no...
Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to

Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to

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The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright...
By Then I Was Thirteen

By Then I Was Thirteen

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This story is so amazing at times one could be excused for believing that it is more fiction than fact. Very much in the vein of Angela's Ashes and Leaving...
Point Last Seen: A Woman Tracker's Story

Point Last Seen: A Woman Tracker's Story

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Hannah Nyala escaped from an abusive marriage, risking everything to save herself and her two children. But then she and her children were subjected to more terror, as her husband...
My Father's Suitcase: A story of family secrets, abuse, betrayal - and

My Father's Suitcase: A story of family secrets, abuse, betrayal - and

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A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking...
Gang of One: One Man's Incredible Battle to Find his Missing Daughter:

Gang of One: One Man's Incredible Battle to Find his Missing Daughter:

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Imagine you're a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America's most notorious prisons. You've been told that if get...
EVEN FROM THE GRAVE THE LAST WISHES

EVEN FROM THE GRAVE THE LAST WISHES

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Profiles celebrities from Jean Harlow and Douglas Fairbanks to Elvis Presley and Robert Mapplethorpe by looking at their wills, which reveal a surprising amount of information about their lives.
First Fly, Last Fly

First Fly, Last Fly

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Storytellers and bards have always been with us from the mists of deepest antiquity to the present. Alistair Brooks is one of the more recent in this long line of...
Revolutionaries

Revolutionaries

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Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval, Marxism and other ideologies of the left, and the movements inspired by them. As a Marxist...
Father Joe

Father Joe

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Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. When the woman's husband learnt of their involvement, he whisked Tony...
The Coronation of Haile Selassie

The Coronation of Haile Selassie

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Published by Penguin for more than fifty years, Evelyn Waugh is one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. In this irreverent personal account of the crowning of...
My Booky Wook

My Booky Wook

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"A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better...
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

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' Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years...
I Call You Friends

I Call You Friends

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As well as an account of Father Radcliffe's life from his childhood and education at Ampleforth to his calling to a life of poverty and religious observance, this book contains...
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

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The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...
Martha

Martha

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Kissing Frogs

Kissing Frogs

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Less Venus in Furs, more Derek in Buxton. Interested? Write to Derek in Buxton. Box 977. RU4ME? Contemplating internet dating? Wondering why anyone would? Fantasising about what you'd find? Fretting...
Keep it Smooth: Life Lessons in Confidence

Keep it Smooth: Life Lessons in Confidence

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A memoir from veteran entertainer Cameron Daddo about confidence: how we nurture it, how we lose it and how we can get it back again Multi-talented Cameron Daddo has been...
Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son

Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son

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The fascinating memoir of a broadcasting legend. Light and Shadow is the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son...
Diesel: the Greg Williams Story

Diesel: the Greg Williams Story

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Diesel: The Greg Williams Story is a biography detailing the career of Australian rules footballer Greg "Diesel" Williams, covering his journey from being rejected by Carlton to becoming a dual...
Departures and Arrivals

Departures and Arrivals

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Highly observant, with a keen sense of the incongruous, Eric Newby is always entertaining as he transports the reader around the world, from his earliest childhood adventures among the shops,...
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child

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With the first cup of tea you are a stranger. With the second...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. In 1993, Greg Mortenson tried to climb...
Cad

Cad

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Shy and cosseted, I developed a wide-eyed attraction to anything exciting or damaged. I idolozed women with those qualities but was ill-equipped to deal with them. I didn't even butter...
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

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"A courageous Afghan woman and her sisters success as unlikely entrepreneurs in this inspiring true story." -- O, The Oprah Magazine The New York Times bestseller, written by a former...
Hating God, Loving God: How a Young Man Born Into Suffering and Driven

Hating God, Loving God: How a Young Man Born Into Suffering and Driven

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Hating God, Loving God presents the author's graphic and painful memories of being raised in a secretive, abusive, and manipulative cult, and how his childhood sufferings spilled over into a...
The UFO Diaries: Travels in the weird world of high strangeness

The UFO Diaries: Travels in the weird world of high strangeness

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When postgrad student Martin Plowman became fascinated by the weird world of UFOs, alien abductions and conspiracy theories, he didn't realise it would lead to an amazing seven-year journey that...
American Hoax

American Hoax

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In 2005, Charles Firth travelled to the US and over a period of six months invented five fictional American characters, each of whom represent a different point of view in...
For the Love of My Mother

For the Love of My Mother

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For the Love of My Mother is the tragic and uplifting story of one Irish mother and her son. Born into a life of poverty and detained at the tender...
Village Vets

Village Vets

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This first book by the much-loved stars of TV's VILLAGE VETS is the unforgettable, hilarious, heartwarming and hair-raising adventures of two country vets, the animals they treat and the characters...
Out Of The Shadows

Out Of The Shadows

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When Wally Lewis, rugby league legend turned TV news presenter, had an epileptic seizure live on air in November 2006, his world came crashing down around him. The medical condition...
Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer

Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer

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Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its...