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Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia's first MasterChef

Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia's first MasterChef

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Author: Julie GoodwinFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 368 pagesPublished: Penguin Random House Australia, Australia, 2024The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook...
Elle

Elle

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Author: Elle MacphersonFormat: Hardback, 166mm x 242mm, 686g, 384 pagesPublished: Penguin Random House Australia, Australia, 2024Real life gems from the Aussie icon. I have learned that love is what really...
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times

The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times

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Author: Michelle ObamaFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 269g, 336 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024In her bestselling follow-up to the worldwide phenomenon Becoming, Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and...
A Promised Land

A Promised Land

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Author: Barack ObamaFormat: Paperback, 151mm x 232mm, 920g, 768 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us...
The Twat Files

The Twat Files

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Author: Dawn FrenchFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 197mm, 279g, 400 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what...
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year

My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year

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Author: Barbra StreisandFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 242mm, 1320g, 992 pagesPublished: Cornerstone, United Kingdom, 2023The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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Author: Kamala Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the U.S. Vice President, the New York Times bestseller about the core truths that unite us and the shared values...
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom

The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom

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Author: Nasser Abu Srour Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan

The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan

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Author: Naoko Abe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives...
Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

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Author: Camilla PangFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 224mm, 349g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024What can we learn about ourselves if we think like scientists? A scientist's journey from...
The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective

The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective

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Author: Liam ThomasFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 287g, 416 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024The powerful memoir of a former undercover officer, telling the story of his journey through the...
The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside the Royal House of Dubai

The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside the Royal House of Dubai

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Author: Tom Steinfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of...
Going Solo

Going Solo

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided...
Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

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Author: Jolyon Maugham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, one of...
Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics

Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics

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Author: Jackie Huggins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 164 Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable...
Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1

Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1

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Author: Guenther Steiner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A hugely entertaining access-all-areas account of a year inside Formula 1, from Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Drive...
Shadow Lines

Shadow Lines

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Author: Stephen Kinnane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In this award-winning novel, Stephen Kinnane has written a deeply personal story of two remarkable people and of a vibrant, resilient...
Question 7

Question 7

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Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

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Author: Bill Browder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of...
Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Stanley Tucci Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the...
The Pretty Girl Killer

The Pretty Girl Killer

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Author: Andrew Byrne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The complete true story of one of the world's most horrifying serial killers, who terrorised both Australia and America...
12 Edmondstone Street

12 Edmondstone Street

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Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
Silence: In the Age of Noise

Silence: In the Age of Noise

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Author: Erling Kagge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world....
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

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Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
Austerlitz

Austerlitz

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Author: W. G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

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Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making...
Night

Night

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Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most...
Real Estate

Real Estate

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international...
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

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Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...
Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media, from The Resilience Project

Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media, from The Resilience Project

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Author: Hugh van Cuylenburg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From the bestselling author of THE RESILIENCE PROJECT comes this deeply personal book about the importance of letting...
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read

Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read

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Author: Dawn French Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The number one bestselling autobiography of Britain's best-loved comedienne ___________________________ A hilarious, heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved...
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard

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Author: Clare Carlisle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard' (Julian Baggini, Financial...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Augustus: The Biography

Augustus: The Biography

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Author: Jochen Bleicken Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when...
The Art of Flight

The Art of Flight

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Author: Fredrik Sjoeberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

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Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

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Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life

Thomas Cromwell: A Life

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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...