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The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

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Author: Gideon Haigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Chosen as a 'Book...
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

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Author: The Countess of Carnarvon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
We All Go into the Dark

We All Go into the Dark

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Author: Francisco Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across...
Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

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Author: James Phelps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew Kirby, former...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

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Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player,...
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

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Author: Eddie Betts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards, Social Impact Book...
Bibi: My Story

Bibi: My Story

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Author: Benjamin Netanyahu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's "compelling" (The Economist) and "fascinating" (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister...
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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Author: Eric Metaxas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith As Adolf Hitler and...
You Never Know: A Memoir

You Never Know: A Memoir

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Author: Tom Selleck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers...
The Allure of Chanel (Illustrated)

The Allure of Chanel (Illustrated)

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Author: Paul Morand (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's memories offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most...
Emperor of Rome

Emperor of Rome

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Author: Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary...
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

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Author: Brad Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000ft into...
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future

Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future

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Author: Charlie Hertzog Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In 2019, climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young attempted suicide, following a succession of breakdowns. He jumped off a six-storey building,...
Late Light: WINNER OF THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING

Late Light: WINNER OF THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING

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Author: Michael Malay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey,...
Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed - Commemorate the historic coronation of the new King

Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed - Commemorate the historic coronation of the new King

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Author: Robert Jobson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The definitive biography of King Charles with exclusive material and insight from a source close to the King himself.
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

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Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project

Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project

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Author: Red Room Poetry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change...
Because I Love Him

Because I Love Him

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Author: Ashlee Donohue Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 172 'In all of the madness stood two addicts: one severely addicted to alcohol and drugs, and the other just as addicted...
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

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Author: Kerryn Phelps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired...
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

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Author: M. John Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece. Formally inventive, constantly surprising, M John Harrison has written an archaeology of fragments...
Quietly Hostile

Quietly Hostile

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Author: Samantha Irby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You 'Brilliant, hilarious and perspicacious' - ELIZABETH DAY 'SO...
Caesar's Vast Ghost

Caesar's Vast Ghost

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Author: Lawrence Durrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean, our old Prospero of the south.' -...
Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

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Author: Michael Frayn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
The Raven's Nest

The Raven's Nest

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Author: Sarah Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In 2008, on a week-long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the strange landscape she...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an afterword. "Deep-dish...sharp-clawed...honestly...
Some Answers Without Questions

Some Answers Without Questions

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Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...
The Making of Us: Why School Matters

The Making of Us: Why School Matters

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Author: Clarissa Farr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools should work'...
Elon Musk: Risking It All

Elon Musk: Risking It All

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Author: Michael Vlismas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From humble beginnings as an awkward boy from Pretoria, who loved comics and science fiction books, to the influence of his...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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Author: Santi Elijah Holley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Editors' Pick "Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles Times The long...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

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Author: Justine Picardie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its...
Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go

Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go

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Author: Tanya Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 '[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life' BOB ODENKIRK 'Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary' NATHAN FILER,...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Bravely revealing' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audience' SATHNAM SANGHERA...
The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD

The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD

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Author: Fergal Keane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH

Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH

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Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his...
The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir

The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir

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Author: Elio Morillo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 "Inspiring and joyous."-People "Heartwarming . . . infectious . . . Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars is every...
The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain

The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain

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Author: Gregory Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The journey of The Antipodean...
The House of Hidden Meanings: The surprising, revealing and poignant memoir from a pop culture icon and bestselling author for readers who loved THE WOMAN IN ME, LOVE PAMELA and PAGEBOY

The House of Hidden Meanings: The surprising, revealing and poignant memoir from a pop culture icon and bestselling author for readers who loved THE WOMAN IN ME, LOVE PAMELA and PAGEBOY

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Author: RuPaul Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant,...
What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

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Author: Kwane Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals...
Harry Potter: Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal

Harry Potter: Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal, a new addition to Insight...
Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'...
Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub)

Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub)

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Author: Clara Batten Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was. I'd have to say that it's...
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

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Author: Mia Mercado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK * A NYLON MUST-READ * A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN...
Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History

Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History

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Author: Dr. Ajay K. Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inspirational story of hope and miracles as a small-town orthopedic surgeon forever changes one woman's life after performing...