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Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their Life

Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their Life

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Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Their breakthrough discoveries have revolutionised medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Nobel Life consists of original interviews with twenty-four Nobel...
Air Babylon

Air Babylon

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A mile-high journey through the best kept secrets of the airline industry Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the...
The Handmade House: A Love Story Set in Concrete

The Handmade House: A Love Story Set in Concrete

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"We didn't intend to build a house. We just wanted to move - somewhere a bit bigger, with more of a garden: commonplace enough ambitions, especially for families with young...
Lady Glenconner's Picnic Papers

Lady Glenconner's Picnic Papers

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Lady Anne Glenconner invites both old friends and new acquaintances to join her in The Picnic Papers . Together, they explore the curious British obsession with dining alfresco, despite our...
Diamonds and Stones in an Era of Gold

Diamonds and Stones in an Era of Gold

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The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and...
Noble Endeavours: The life of two countries, England and Germany, in

Noble Endeavours: The life of two countries, England and Germany, in

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In 1613 a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to weld together Europe's two...
The Sunday Times Investigates: Reporting That Made History

The Sunday Times Investigates: Reporting That Made History

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A must-have gift for anyone interested in investigative journalism. The Sunday Times Insight team is famous for its investigative journalism. This book profiles the major stories - often a result...
A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia

A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia

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Combining personal and professional experience, A Silent Tsunami is a moving exploration of the development of Dementia and its impacts on a mother-daughter relationship. A Silent Tsunami is a unique...
A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France

A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France

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Three weeks into our hen ownership and there wasn't a single egg, there was nothing. Natalie's theory for this was that they were bored. Can hens be bored? Really? They're...
Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily

Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily

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You are a journalist. You should be writing on one of our great Indian papers, then you will really be starting to understand us.A chance conversation with her greengrocer about...
Life and Death Decisions

Life and Death Decisions

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Abducted: The Fourteen-year Fight to Find My Children

Abducted: The Fourteen-year Fight to Find My Children

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The Darwin Awards: The Official Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards: The Official Darwin Awards

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Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire

Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire

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Conspiracy theories are legion. Conspiracies are rare. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. This story is the exception. In 2007, a short...
Great Australian Ute Stories

Great Australian Ute Stories

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Lady Glenconner's Picnic Papers

Lady Glenconner's Picnic Papers

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Lady Anne Glenconner invites both old friends and new acquaintances to join her in The Picnic Papers . Together, they explore the curious British obsession with dining alfresco, despite our...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

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'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Dear Heart

Dear Heart

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Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I Am

Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I Am

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Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany. WINNER OF THE BBC FOUR SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE...
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins

April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins

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Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon Courtenay died...
The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside the Royal House of Dubai

The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside

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The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of Dubai, ruled by the iron fist of its patriarch,...
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

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A pioneering Harvard psychiatrist uncovers the lost connections between the mind, body and immune system When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should...
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

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A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school...
A New Voyage Round the World

A New Voyage Round the World

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A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...
The Boy Behind the Curtain

The Boy Behind the Curtain

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This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and Land's Edge (both also first published in paperback in 2017), it...
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

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'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review...
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia

The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of

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B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge...
Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I Am

Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I

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Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany. WINNER OF THE BBC FOUR SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE...
The Big Book of Australian Yarns: and amazing true stories

The Big Book of Australian Yarns: and amazing true stories

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'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades.' - Courier-Mail The Big Book of Australian Yarns is master storyteller Jim Haynes' comprehensive collection...
Great Australian Horse Stories

Great Australian Horse Stories

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Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life the exploits--funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic--of horses from all over the nation. Outback legends, loyal carthorses, spectacular high jumpers and trusty stock horses....
Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg

Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg

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He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. 'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt...
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power

Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power

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In Hero Living Rudy Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4's smash-hit SAS Who Dares Wins introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man....
Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us

Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us

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'SUCH AN INCREDIBLE READ' ZOE BALL'ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST INSPIRING BOOKS' HOLLY WILLOUGHBYWith a foreword by 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, and including chapters on Rose and...
Who Dares Wins: The sequel to BORN FEARLESS, the Sunday Times bestseller

Who Dares Wins: The sequel to BORN FEARLESS, the Sunday Times

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JOIN SAS LEGEND PHIL CAMPION AS HE SHARES HIS DEEPLY PERSONAL LIFE STORY, WARTS AND ALLIn WHO DARES WINS Big Phil Campion reveals his chequered past, from terrible abuse suffered...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On

Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On

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Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture,...
Kahawai Cowboys and Kingfish Capers

Kahawai Cowboys and Kingfish Capers

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Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the shameless pretender who took the credit, from the popular author of RUM, perfect for fans of Grantlee Kieza and David Hunt

Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the

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'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
Easy Target: Taming the Black Dog

Easy Target: Taming the Black Dog

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'I was an easy target. You didn't have to be a trained sniper to take the shot.' Easy Target - Taming the Black Dog is the inspirational story of a...
Who's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

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The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award (R)-winning, Emmy (R)-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma

Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy

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Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
The Age of Light

The Age of Light

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The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own)

The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own)

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Who's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

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The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award (R)-winning, Emmy (R)-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

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'I kept going and here I am.' There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn't be telling you. Many of them are in this book: Some are embarrassing (like when she...