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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

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Author: Robert A Caro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times) offers a riveting...
Orwell in Spain

Orwell in Spain

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
American Scoundrel

American Scoundrel

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

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Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

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Author: Rod Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and...
We Of The Never-Never

We Of The Never-Never

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Author: Aeneas Gunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The 100th year anniversary of this well loved Australian Classic. In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Boy Behind the Curtain

The Boy Behind the Curtain

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and...
The Very Busy Spider

The Very Busy Spider

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Author: Eric Carle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 24 A book to feel as well as to read, this bestselling companion title to The Very Hungry Caterpillar appears...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's...
Personal Writings

Personal Writings

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that'  Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

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Author: Dr Richard Shepherd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS The dead do not hide the truth...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Island Home

Island Home

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world,...
How to Make Gravy

How to Make Gravy

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Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed...
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

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Author: Stephanie Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Aren't we all just a little bit afraid that we, or someone we care about, will be duped in...
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Who were you before the world told you who to be? When women learn to please they forget who...
The Trauma Cleaner

The Trauma Cleaner

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Author: Sarah Krasnostein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 261 A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was...
Attila The Hun

Attila The Hun

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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Author: Ashlee Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire

Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man...
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 Britain's Child Migrants to Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living...
One Way Road: The Autobiography of Robbie McEwen

One Way Road: The Autobiography of Robbie McEwen

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Author: Ed Pickering Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The autobiography of three time Tour de France Green Jersey winner. The autobiography of three time Tour de France...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

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Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse

Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse

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Author: Gregory Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Gregory Smith was homeless for much of his adult life and lived for many years as a recluse in...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood

The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet- into his own childhood in America's Mid-West. Bill Bryson's first travel...
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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Author: Yeonmi Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The incredible autobiography of Yeonmi Park- a North Korean defector who escaped across the Gobi desert and is now...
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing...
Are you there little Owl?

Are you there little Owl?

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Author: Sam Taplin Format: Board book Number of Pages: 12 Little owl is hiding! Children will love peeping through the holes in this charming book to try and find the...
Let Me Go: Abused and Afraid, She Has Nothing to Live for

Let Me Go: Abused and Afraid, She Has Nothing to Live for

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Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

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Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was...
Women I've Undressed: The Fabulous Life and Times of a Legendary Hollywood Designer

Women I've Undressed: The Fabulous Life and Times of a Legendary Hollywood Designer

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Author: Orry-Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume...
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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Author: Tommy Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Now a Netflix original movie starring Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber, Douglas Booth, and Iwan Rheon, directed by Jeff...
The American Duchess

The American Duchess

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Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

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Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort

Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort

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Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear

Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear

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Author: Willard Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to...
Je t'aime: The legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg

Je t'aime: The legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg

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Author: Veronique Mortaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Timed to coincide with both Valentine's Day and the 50-year anniversary of the legendary banned song Je t'aime... moi...
ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography: The autobiography of the legendary Manchester United manager

ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography: The autobiography of the legendary Manchester United manager

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Author: Alex Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest and revealing he reflects on his managerial career that embraced unprecedented...