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We Come With This Place

We Come With This Place

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Author: Debra Dank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 WE COME WITH THIS PLACE AWARDS AND LISTINGS: Shortlisted for 2023?NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted for 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award...
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

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Author: Mark T. Esper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure...
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

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Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

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Author: Gabrielle Union Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "You Got Anything Stronger continues the project of unshackling. It's soul-baring work." - The Washington Post So. Where were we Right,...
Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules

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Author: Patricia Field Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture - bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
The World According to Joan Didion

The World According to Joan Didion

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Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

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Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
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 Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

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Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

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Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'To read it is to believe that words can save' MARLON JAMES 'I adored this book...
The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

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Author: Ron DeSantis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

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Author: Cody Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book...
Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride Into Parenthood

Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride Into Parenthood

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Author: Sophie McCartney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Welcome to the jungle... When you've grown up thinking your twenties are all about working hard, playing hard and trying not...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
Cold-Water Eden

Cold-Water Eden

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Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

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Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Unbroken

Unbroken

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Author: Laura Hillenbrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 500 The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. On a May afternoon in...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a...
Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope

Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope

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Author: Shannon Dingle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Shannon's struggle, defiance, strength, and power emanate from every page. That kind of brave can be trusted." - Glennon Doyle, #1...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)

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Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
Breathe: A Life in Flow

Breathe: A Life in Flow

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Author: Rickson Gracie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie's...
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh

The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh

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Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful...
Code Name Blue Wren

Code Name Blue Wren

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Author: Jim Popkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to...
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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Author: Dr Matt Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

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Author: Hopwood DePree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to...
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...
This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

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Author: Ben West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still...
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

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Author: Shannon Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames, from Shannon Molloy, the author of...
Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that...
Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak

Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak

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Author: Rosie Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it's too late. Nine-year-old...
Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny

Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny

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Author: Holly Madison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. But like...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy Strong is...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy

Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...
The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear, there's no...
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

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Author: Elaine Feinstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy....
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

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Author: Roman Dial Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." -Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post),...
God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

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Author: Hannah Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A New York Times bestseller. "My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the...
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

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Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story...
Unbought and Unbossed

Unbought and Unbossed

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Author: Shirley Chisholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "A tremendously impressive book."-Washington Post "Her motto and title of her autobiography-Unbought and Unbossed-illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities...
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked

Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked

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Author: Lauren Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Raw, intense and absorbing.' MATT HAIG 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer

His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer

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Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

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Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen...
Roaring Girls: The extraordinary lives of history's unsung heroines

Roaring Girls: The extraordinary lives of history's unsung heroines

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Author: Holly Kyte Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she...
Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

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Author: Julia Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Like a third of the UK population, Julia has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can't be cured....
Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

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Author: Roger Bennett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...