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David Davies: 1864-1939

David Davies: 1864-1939

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Author: Cameron SparksBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling biography chronicles the significant life and enduring...
On Target: Famous Assassinations And Attempts From Julius Caesar To John Lennon

On Target: Famous Assassinations And Attempts From Julius Caesar To John Lennon

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Author: Stephen J. SpignesiBinding: HardbackPublished: Bounty Books, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOn Target: Famous Assassinations And Attempts From Julius Caesar To John Lennon presents a gripping historical account...
Whatever Man Dares: The Second World War Memoirs Of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sublet Dso Mc

Whatever Man Dares: The Second World War Memoirs Of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sublet Dso Mc

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Author: Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sublet Dso McBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kokoda Press, 2013Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhatever Man Dares chronicles the harrowing and...
William Pitt, Earl Of Chatham (Two-Volume Set)

William Pitt, Earl Of Chatham (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Albert Von RuvilleBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Vol....
James Lees-Milne Diaries 1953 - 1997 (Eight-Volune Set)

James Lees-Milne Diaries 1953 - 1997 (Eight-Volune Set)

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Author: James Lees-MilneBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis distinguished set of diaries presents one of the most vivid records of British cultural and social...
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Two-Volume Set)

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Two-Volume Set)

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Author: Bertrand RussellBinding: PaperbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image-
The Memoirs Of Sir Anthony Eden (Three-Volume Set)

The Memoirs Of Sir Anthony Eden (Three-Volume Set)

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Author: Sir Anthony EdenBinding: HardbackPublished: CASSELL, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis distinguished set of political memoirs chronicles the career of Anthony Eden, one...
Chu Yuan

Chu Yuan

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Author: Tung Tse-WeiBinding: PaperbackPublished: Foreign Languages Press, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUnknown
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires , Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A memoir of life, death and everything

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A memoir of life, death and everything

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An inspiring memoir by a young mother with Stage Four metastatic cancer, The Unwinding of the Miracle challenges the way we write and talk about death and demands you contemplate...
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

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Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?...
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

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An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month One of Elle Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Goodreads Best of the Month Daily Beast, "Books I Can't Live Without" Good Housekeeping, Best...
The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens

The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens

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*** 'The best gardening book of 2022.' The Telegraph 'A book to make even a quick trip to the corner shop endlessly fascinating. Dark has been dubbed the millennial Monty...
Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of

Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of

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The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure...
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

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When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the...
Sorrow Mountain: the Remarkable Story of a Tibetan Warrior Nun: The

Sorrow Mountain: the Remarkable Story of a Tibetan Warrior Nun: The

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The book titled Sorrow Mountain: the Remarkable Story of a Tibetan Warrior Nun: The by the author Ani Pachen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror

Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror

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During the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg - an American Jew - served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was...
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of

Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of

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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the...
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor

Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor

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From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de...
Snake Oil And Other Preoccupations

Snake Oil And Other Preoccupations

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At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be "an uncomplimentary look at...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

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A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of...
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

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In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death `Impossible to read with dry...
Time for Her: A Memoir of True Romance

Time for Her: A Memoir of True Romance

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MITCH LARSSON LIVED THE REGULAR LIFE OF A MARRIED FATHER, UNTIL A SNAP DECISION MADE IN HIS FORTIES CHANGED HIS LIFE AND THE LIVES OF MANY WOMEN... Time for Her...
Waleed Aly (I Know This To Be True): On sincerity, compassion &

Waleed Aly (I Know This To Be True): On sincerity, compassion &

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Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project , a daily primetime television news and current affairs programme, he is one Australia's leading...
Being Peta: living with leukaemia

Being Peta: living with leukaemia

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Being Peta provides a brave, honest firsthand account by a young person of what it's like to live with leukaemia. It is a book that will provide comfort and companionship...
The House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley ( a memoir)

The House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley ( a memoir)

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Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with...
Bury Me Vertical

Bury Me Vertical

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In his latest collection, Ryle brings together the best cock and bull stories from the local pub, the sale yard, the track and his own remarkable life. Have you heard...
The Hidden Journey: Melanoma Up Close and Personal

The Hidden Journey: Melanoma Up Close and Personal

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Christine is in a purple patch of her life. Recently retired, she has big plans for the future and decides to keep a journal. This is her time: time to...
The Ride of My Life: Memoirs of a Sporting Editor

The Ride of My Life: Memoirs of a Sporting Editor

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Michael Clayton has enjoyed a fascinating career as a professional journalist on Fleet Street but the highlight of his career was his work as a editor and journalist in the...
Rural Tranquillity to National Crisis: A Farm Vet's Story

Rural Tranquillity to National Crisis: A Farm Vet's Story

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Born in rural Worcestershire in 1950, David Harwood learnt about keeping animals from an early age, before going on to study veterinary medicine at London's Royal Veterinary College. Once qualified,...
Lorenzo The Magnificent

Lorenzo The Magnificent

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Author: Hugh Ross WilliamsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography Lorenzo The Magnificent chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the Renaissance's...
Heroes: Women In Snowboarding

Heroes: Women In Snowboarding

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Author: Jerome TanonBinding: HardbackPublished: ACC ART BOOKS, 2020Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: slighly worn binding'Heroes: Women In Snowboarding chronicles the groundbreaking achievements and inspiring journeys of female athletes...
Marie-Antoinette's Versailles

Marie-Antoinette's Versailles

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Author: Cécile BerlyBinding: PaperbackPublished: ART LYS, 2013Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCécile Berly's Marie-Antoinette's Versailles chronicles the opulent and ultimately tragic life...
Why We Run: A Story of Obsession

Why We Run: A Story of Obsession

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Everyone can run. It is the simplest of sports, requiring only a pair of trainers and the open road. Its simplicity is part of its beauty. But why do we...
Wharlie

Wharlie

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Author: Wal Stubbings And Lesley SyngeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Zing Stories, 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image A wandering storyteller crosses paths with a...
My Story: Harry M Miller As Told To Denis O'Brien

My Story: Harry M Miller As Told To Denis O'Brien

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Author: Harry M MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: M, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerMy Story chronicles the extraordinary life and career of a legendary figure in the entertainment world, offering an...
A Man Called Peter: The Story Of Peter Marshall

A Man Called Peter: The Story Of Peter Marshall

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Author: Catherine MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, A Man Called Peter: The Story Of Peter Marshall, chronicles the extraordinary life and...
An Open Book

An Open Book

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Author: Monica DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: THE COMPANION BOOK CLUB, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAn Open Book presents a captivating narrative that uncovers the intricate layers of a woman's life, revealing...
Bruckner And Mahler

Bruckner And Mahler

$12.00 AUD
Author: H.F. RedlichBinding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsH.F. Redlich's Bruckner And Mahler presents a scholarly examination of two titans of late Romantic...
Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old-Time Buenos Aires

Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old-Time Buenos Aires

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Author: Jorge Luis BorgesBinding: HardbackPublished: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis work presents a fascinating biographical and critical study of the forgotten Argentine poet Evaristo...
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me

David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me

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David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me is Geoff MacCormack's remarkable photographic memoir, charting his lifelong friendship with David Bowie. Images bring MacCormack's stories to life, showing the places he...
With A Great Master In India

With A Great Master In India

$40.00 AUD
Author: Julian P. Johnson, M.A., M.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: RADHA SWAMI SAT SANG, BEAS, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWith A Great Master In India presents an intimate...
Mawson's Antarctic Diaries

Mawson's Antarctic Diaries

$30.00 AUD
Author: Fred Jacka & Eleanor JackaBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Unwin Australia, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the harrowing expeditions of a legendary polar...
Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

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Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markings-
Dolly

Dolly

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Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markings-
Mum's the Word

Mum's the Word

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Author: Marea StenmarkBinding: HardbackPublished: North Rocks Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markings-
Atlantis Is Missing: A Gripping True Story Of Survival In The Australian Wilderness

Atlantis Is Missing: A Gripping True Story Of Survival In The Australian Wilderness

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Author: Barbara WinterBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Melbourne, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping non-fiction account chronicles a truly extraordinary event in Australian history. It details the...
Mary Queen Of Scots And Her Accusers: A Narrative Of Events From The Death Of James V. In 1542 Until The Death Of Queen Mary In 1587

Mary Queen Of Scots And Her Accusers: A Narrative Of Events From The Death Of James V. In 1542 Until The Death Of Queen Mary In 1587

$50.00 AUD
Author: John HosackBinding: HardbackPublished: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cracked, otherwise internally sound....