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Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

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Author: Nigella Lawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'More than just a mantra, "cook, eat, repeat" is the story of my life'- A brilliant new book from Nigella Lawson...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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Author: Alison Bechdel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The new masterpiece from the bestselling, award-winning graphic novelist and feminist icon, whose fans include Gloria Steinem and Laura Marling *A...
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

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Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first ever graphic novel treatment of Orwell's seminal fable, now in paperback When the downtrodden animals of Manor...
Majak

Majak

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Author: Majak Daw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From AFL stardom to attempting to take his own life, Majak Daw's is a football story like no other....
The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

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Author: Hugh van Cuylenburg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The key steps to leading a happier, more contented and fulfilling life Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary...
Unquiet

Unquiet

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Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...
When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

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Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

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Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
I Saw A Strange Land

I Saw A Strange Land

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Author: Arthur Groom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Life and Adventures: Text Classics

Life and Adventures: Text Classics

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), 'the wild white man?, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. In...
Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts Up The Cross

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Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

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Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

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Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Monk of Mokha

The Monk of Mokha

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Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
Raising Demons

Raising Demons

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

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Author: Robin de Crespigny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq...
The Fry Chronicles

The Fry Chronicles

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
Life on Air

Life on Air

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Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

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Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural...
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie...
Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019

The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019

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Author: Jack Fairweather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

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Author: Robert A Caro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times) offers a riveting...
Orwell in Spain

Orwell in Spain

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
American Scoundrel

American Scoundrel

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

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Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

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Author: Rod Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's...
Personal Writings

Personal Writings

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that'  Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

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Author: Dr Richard Shepherd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS The dead do not hide the truth...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Who were you before the world told you who to be? When women learn to please they forget who...
The Trauma Cleaner

The Trauma Cleaner

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Author: Sarah Krasnostein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 261 A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was...
Attila The Hun

Attila The Hun

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
The Choice: A true story of hope

The Choice: A true story of hope

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Author: Edith Eger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even...
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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Author: Ashlee Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk...