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The Justice Game

The Justice Game

$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: sticker remnant on the dj. In the high-stakes arena where justice, power, and human rights collide, The Justice...
Schindler's Ark (SIGNED)

Schindler's Ark (SIGNED)

$800.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar. Few tiny spots on the top edge. Otherwise remains a clean, tight and bright...
All That Swagger (SIGNED)

All That Swagger (SIGNED)

$1,000.00 AUD
Edition: 6th reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped, edges worn, in mylar. Binding: remains tight; faded and discoloured boards. light bumping...
The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (SIGNED)

The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (SIGNED)

$350.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: edgeworn. Binding: remains tight. Pages: some foxing on the book block. At the violent...
Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

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For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

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"A gripping and powerful account of what prison is like and what it takes to make it through... Make sure you read it." Kimberley Chambers Widely known in the criminal...
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me

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____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the...
Throwing the Book

Throwing the Book

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Wayne Barnes - one of the most-experienced international referees in history and criminal barrister to boot - uniquely lifts the lid on a lifetime of trying to keep the biggest...
A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir

A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir

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'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and...
A Brief History of Time: a Readers Companion

A Brief History of Time: a Readers Companion

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In 1989 Anglia Television joined with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, NBC and the Tokyo Broadcasting System to announce production of a 90-minute feature on the life of Stephen Hawking and...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem

In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem

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'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....
Heart Life Music

Heart Life Music

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heart Life Music is a love letter to the journey: all the places I've gone and how we got...
Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037

Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037

$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037 Rock legends, sporting heroes, and literary provocateurs — memoirs and biographies spanning Paul Hogan to Hunter S. Thompson, Rod Stewart to...
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3009

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3009

$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3009 Eighteen books of history, politics, science, and current affairs — George Megalogenis, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Paul Hasluck, David Suzuki,...
Secondhand Publisher's Proofs Bargain Book Box SP2994

Secondhand Publisher's Proofs Bargain Book Box SP2994

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Secondhand Publisher's Proofs Bargain Book Box SP2994 Twenty-two advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs of contemporary literary fiction — Australian and international. Veronica Roth, Kate Forsyth, Adam Johnson, Naomi Ishiguro,...
Secondhand Memoir & Biography Bargain Book Box SP3006

Secondhand Memoir & Biography Bargain Book Box SP3006

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Secondhand Memoir & Biography Bargain Book Box SP3006 Fifteen memoirs and inspirational books — Magda Szubanski, Tracey Spicer, Ruth Cracknell, Gai Waterhouse, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Jessica Watson, Bethany Hamilton, Elizabeth Gilbert,...
Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP3010

Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP3010

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Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP3010 Fifteen illustrated and reference books of military history — Jane's Fighting Ships, the Battle of Britain, the RAF's U-boat war, women in...
Biotope: Pastorale

Biotope: Pastorale

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Two-star Michelin chef Bart De Pooter - a pioneer of Flemish gastronomy at his elegant restaurant, Pastorale - pays homage to the adventures and discoveries that have shaped his culinary...
How to Dress a Dummy

How to Dress a Dummy

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Cassie Lane had a quintessentially Australian, dysfunctional, single-parent upbringing. She and her mother loved each other, but in a stealing-Christmas-trees-together kind of way. For as long as she remembers she...
The Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Conditions

The Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Conditions

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From Sir Ernest Shackleton on South Georgia Island to currency trader Ron DiFrancesco in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, to diver Stephanie Schwabe in the Mermaid's Lair...
What I Don't Know About Animals

What I Don't Know About Animals

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What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. There is, however, one thing of which she is certain: our relationships with and attitudes to animals are really...
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons

The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons

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16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in...
Gaia Calls: South Sea Voices, Dolphins, Sharks and Rainforests

Gaia Calls: South Sea Voices, Dolphins, Sharks and Rainforests

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Gaia Calls compiles memoirs and descriptions of Wade Doak's life as a young man in the Solomon Islands living among the islanders, to years of dolphin research, diving adventures, and...
Hear Me Out

Hear Me Out

$43.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Girls Aloud 'wildchild' Sarah Harding finally sets the record straight in her powerful and moving memoir 'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my...
Still Bobbi: Stories of authenticity, resilience and reinvention from

Still Bobbi: Stories of authenticity, resilience and reinvention from

$44.99 AUD$38.24 AUD
'Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. Let Bobbi's powerful story be your reminder that you don't need permission and you don't have to feel ready. You just have...
Still Bobbi: Stories of authenticity, resilience and reinvention from

Still Bobbi: Stories of authenticity, resilience and reinvention from

$34.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
'Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. Let Bobbi's powerful story be your reminder that you don't need permission and you don't have to feel ready. You just have...
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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An instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A sexy, frank and delectable memoir' The New York Times 'An instant, hedonistic culinary classic' The London Standard 'It's the two best things in the...
Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with

Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with

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'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...
Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted

Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted

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' An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules...
Breaking Awake: My Search For A New Life Through Drugs

Breaking Awake: My Search For A New Life Through Drugs

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'An unflinching examination of contemporary culture's quest for the quick fix to emotional pain' LAURA DELANO Why do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day?...
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: The International

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: The International

$26.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
**THE SEQUEL I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI OUT NOW ** THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON...
Private Equity: Coming of Age at the Height of Capitalism

Private Equity: Coming of Age at the Height of Capitalism

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A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024 'A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul' Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author...
Flourish: The Extraordinary Journey Into Finding Your Best Self

Flourish: The Extraordinary Journey Into Finding Your Best Self

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What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with...
An Ocean and a Day: A powerful and poignant memoir on grief, loss and

An Ocean and a Day: A powerful and poignant memoir on grief, loss and

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An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love. 'P rofoundly moving, both a tender love letter...
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope

Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life'...
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, from the

Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, from the

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'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even...
My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM

My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM

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The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world - now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret...
Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing about Grief

Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing about Grief

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
A braided memoir that interweaves the author's personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this book is both Sam Meekings' raw account of the...
A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir

A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir

$54.99 AUD$46.74 AUD
'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and...
Flower Between the Cracks

Flower Between the Cracks

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It's every parent's nightmare. One ordinary evening, Helen's 22-year-old daughter Jayne is involved in a catastrophic car accident. Lying in a coma, her young life in the balance, Helen composes...
Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan

Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan

$24.19 AUD$12.00 AUD
When Jimmy O'Connell took a job as chauffeur for 007 producers Eon Productions, it would not just be Cubby Broccoli, Roger Moore and Sean Connery he would drive to James...
Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea

Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea

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For the first time, Kenneth Bae tells the full story surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in North Korea. Not Forgotten is a modern story of intrigue, suspense, and heart. Driven...
Two Mums and a Dad

Two Mums and a Dad

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Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties...
War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War

War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War

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Read David Axe's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street...
Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

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First edition in Penguin Classics for two powerful prose sagas, and part of a new series of eight Icelandic Sagas These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought...
Getting Into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey

Getting Into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey

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A fascinating mix of participatory journalism and history, Getting Into Guinness is the never-before-told story of the bestselling copyrighted book of all time. Veteran reporter Larry Olmsted began a personal...