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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...
Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aged 11-20 Years

Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aged 11-20 Years

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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...
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob

The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob

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Humble Pie

Humble Pie

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Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story... Humble Pie tells the full story of how...
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World

The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World

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Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of

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An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...
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...
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...
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...
Samira & Samir

Samira & Samir

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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's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

by Eve
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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...
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...
My Rescue Dog Rescued Me: Amazing True Stories of Adopted Canine Heroes

My Rescue Dog Rescued Me: Amazing True Stories of Adopted Canine

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Meet the inspirational dogs who went from being rescued to becoming rescuer, in these incredible true stories. You'll read all about...- Toby, the golden retriever who performed the Heimlich manoeuvre...
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While

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"This startling, vital book deserves our attention." -San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While

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"This startling, vital book deserves our attention." -San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic,...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon...
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power: An inspirational can-do book from the star of 'SAS: Who Dares Wins'

Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power: An

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An inspirational can-do book from the star of Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins.In Hero Living Rudy Reyes introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and...
Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers

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AS SEEN ON BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERSMontgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to help...
A Normal Family: The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood (And How I Discovered 35 New Siblings)

A Normal Family: The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood [...]

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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST SUMMER READS 20225* 'A jaw-dropping memoir' - THE TELEGRAPH'One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... a beautiful, warm, funny book.' -The Times'A wholly...
Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

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'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written ... Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE'It turned on so many lights for...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

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She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be.'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS, THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY AND HUDSON FYSH

Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map

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  The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

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WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEARTrent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a...
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 of Trauma

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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...
Chronicles of The Juice Man

Chronicles of The Juice Man

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Author: Soren BakerFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 234mm, 367g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2024A memoir by the Oscar-winning, platinum-selling rapper and producer for fans of Rick Ross's...
Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

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Author: Rachel WilsonFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 180g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written ......
The Year of Yes: The Story of a Girl, a Few Hundred Dates, and Fate

The Year of Yes: The Story of a Girl, a Few Hundred Dates, and Fate

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The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

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Author: Peter Haining Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Killing Time

Killing Time

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Author: Jimmy Barnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer...
The Darwin Awards III: Even More Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker

The Darwin Awards III: Even More Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker

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Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER

Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER

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Author: Paul Hogan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived...
Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination

Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination

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Author: Jenny Tough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient....
The Moth: This Is a True Story

The Moth: This Is a True Story

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Author: Catherine Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches,...