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At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet...

The book titled Don't Stand on the Grass - Memoirs of Early Nursing in Australia: by the author Fleur Finnie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

At 20 years of age, Ross Gregory was selected to play cricket for Australia. He went on to play alongside Bradman before enlisting in the RAAF and serving in England...

Enter a world of mystery and hauntings fair and foul . the best ghost stories you will read for a long time ... from the author of the bestselling Ancient...

A history of the first-flight race documents the efforts of such Wright brothers' competitors as the Smithsonian's Samuel Pierpont Langley, Glenn Curtiss, and Alexander Graham Bell.

From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. With her aviation licence and...

Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects...

An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those...

Martin Cooper (1910-86), was one of the leading critics of the post-war period and chief music critic of "The Daily Telegraph" from 1954-7 as well as a broadcaster and author...

The Sunday Times bestselling account of how an undercover cop infiltrated a football hooligan firm 'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm...

Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse,...

This is the story of New Zealand's most notorious art forger. Charles Frederick Goldie is the country's most famous artist. Carl Feodor Goldie is the most infamous forger. Karl Feodor...

'It is a fascinating tale of love and passion, courage and perfidy, ambitions and progressive politics, told against a background of world and national events.' -The Hon. Michael Kirby, Past...

A box that plays music contains five books and a magnet.

The astonishing true journey of Trudi Kanter, an Austrian Jew, whose courage, resourcefulness, and perseverance kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion is a rediscovered masterpiece....

The book titled The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed by the author Rupert Isaacson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. Nearly seventy...

The inspiring, heartwarming true story of Barney and Kada Miller. This couple prove that love and resilience can change everything. As a 20-year-old, David 'Barney' Miller was one of the...

When he died in 1996, Laurens Van der Post had won renown in an astounding range of roles: as war hero, writer, explorer, mystic, environmentalist, Jungian, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and friend...

John Updike considers it one of the less elevated impulses, Norman Mailer sees it as an inevitable conflict, Wallace Stevens saw it as one of the greatest aspects of literature....

The book titled The King of Inventors: Life of Wilkie Collins by the author Catherine Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Hume by the author Nicholas Phillipson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Rosenberg Suzanne : Soviet Odyssey by the author Suzanne Rosenberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This record of a childhood spent in the ritual-filled, privileged days of Persia before Khomeini, evokes a civilization shaken to dust by the 1979 revolution. It is an account of...

The book titled Too Long in the Bush by the author Len Beadell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

. The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist. Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of...

Shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulling no punches, Friends and Enemies traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society. From her early childhood...

A beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a...

The book titled Death of a Jewish American Princess: The True Story of a Victim on by the author Shirley Frondorf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

This cultural history extends to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological and emotional dimensions of the primary colours. Using poetry, song, fable, opinion, literary criticism,...

Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?; Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman; The burning of the sailing ship Boyd sets back European settlement by a...

This is the story of Rimbaud`s `lost years' the years after he turned his back on poetry, and fame and France, for a life of wandering and obscurity in the...

Secondhand Science, Politics & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2893 Twenty books for the curious non-fiction reader — politics, psychology, science, economics, and the history of human folly — from some...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2868 Eighteen memoirs and biographies as varied as the lives they describe — athletes and comedians, journalists and explorers, including a signed copy...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899 From Harold Evans in Fleet Street to the Prince of Wales writing to his married mistress — eighteen lives at full volume,...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2892 A.J.P. Taylor appears twice — on Bismarck and on Hitler — and the company is equally serious: Dayan's memoir, Gorky's wartime diary,...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2887 Eight Past Masters from Oxford anchor the bottom of the box, with four Fontana History of Europe volumes, Pepys's Diary, and Galbraith,...

From Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, comes an empowering, inspiring book about how she transformed grief, setbacks, and flaws into growth, self-confidence,...

Lion Attack!is a startlingly original, ambitious work about a young man trying to navigate contemporary Australia and his own life. Part romance, part tragi-comedy, and part social critique, it is...

"Oh I DID want to be happy as a woman. But I'm a monster and must accept being one. Not all writers are monsters. But my kind is." Antonia White...

Gerald Brenan led a life studded with adventure. He was drawn to the 1920s underworld - both in London and Seville - of prostitutes, flamenco singers and the poor. He...

A conscientious objector during World War 1, Basil Bunting worked for British Intelligence during World War 2 but his real forte was writing poetry. In 1994 Oxford University Press published...

Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his own practices as well as those of biographers from Samuel Johnson to Richard Ellmann and many...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE , WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR "Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how...

In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden...

Rubenstein uncovers the man behind the controversies, the gifted writer whose life embodied all the tragic dilemmas of a Russian Jewish intellectual under totalitarianism. Journalist, novelist, and poet Ilya Ehrenburg...