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Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress
A new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks 'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES 'Witty' INDEPENDENT 'Wry and reflective . ....
To the Greatest Heights
'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing'...
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs,...
The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic and Rediscovered Writing
'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...
Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery
Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards 'brave ... visceral ... a brilliant, brilliant read ... I would recommend this book to everyone.' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live 'so...
100 Great Black Britons
'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history' DAVID LAMMY, author...
The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens
'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man' Ken Loach Tony Garnett's story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he movingly describes the trauma of his mother's death following a back-street...
Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking
Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease...
Just Different: A Memoir
'This is a terrific and very entertaining book considering Wayne once told me that he had never read past page seven of any book.' David Hockney Wayne Sleep has danced...
27 Beats Per Minute: Meditations on Life, Literature and Paris
'A very special book that I enjoyed enormously' Cees Nooteboom A dazzling ode to life, literature and Paris, the French capital that even in emptiness and desolation will always be...
My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland
AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S HIT TV-SHOW 'THIS FARMING LIFE' 'A heartwarming tale of life on the land' Alan Titchmarsh 'There's love and loss, challenge and adversity, but above all...
The Last Victim: A serial con man. The ultimate betrayal. An
In 2017, Tracy Hall's life went from fact to fiction overnight when she discovered the man she'd been dating for nearly two years, Max, was actually one of Australia's most...
Karajan: Notes on a Career
The book titled Karajan: Notes on a Career by the author Robert C. Bachmann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Boy Friends: A Memoir of Joy, Grief and Male Friendship
n intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's...
What Have They Done to the Rain
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'My name is Patrick John Duggan and I was - am - a soldier.' So begins the story of Pat Duggan's life in the Army, and service in the Vietnam...
The Best of Me
What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these...
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir - from the star of
'Excellent . . . A celebration of peculiarity' Vogue 'Humour-packed, irreverent, eccentric' Elle Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with...
Zero Footprint: The True Story of a Private Military Contractor's
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This national bestseller is a dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting. Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and top-secret missions -- this is the life of...
Delight
'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th...
Moon In My Pocket
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: edges chipped and worn with some loss on rear panel....
American Caesar: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964
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Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American military history inspire as much awe, controversy, and fascination as General Douglas MacArthur —...
Matters For Judgment: An Autobiography
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history have ignited as much controversy as Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General whose 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough...
The Life Of Kathleen Ferrier
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every legendary voice lies an extraordinary life — and few voices of the twentieth century were as luminous, or...
A Voyage From Plymouth To Melbourne In 1839: The Shipboard And Early Melbourne Diary Of Jonathan Binns Were, C.M.G.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the spring of 1839, a young man of remarkable ambition set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the remote colonial settlement of Melbourne — and...
No Roads Go By
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Edition: First Illustrated ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Light tanning on block, tape residue on inside of cover. Pages clean, binding firm. Small...
The Magic Touch
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew writers of the twentieth century chronicled the human condition with the raw intensity and moral urgency of Joseph Kessel,...
Old Worlds And New Australia: The Post-War Migrant Experience
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the decades following World War II, Australia was irrevocably transformed by one of the most...
Merton: A Biography
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew spiritual figures of the twentieth century have captured the imagination of believers and sceptics alike quite like...
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History Of The American West
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most shattering works of American history ever written, Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at...
Monty: His Part In My Victory
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of wartime absurdity, Spike Milligan chronicles the Italian campaign of World War II through...
Jesus In The Tide Of Time: An Historical Study
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat can the ancient world tell us about the man who reshaped it? Jesus in the Tide of Time: An Historical Study presents a...
Too Good To Be True: Inside The Corrupt World Of Christopher Skase
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the glittering, greed-soaked era of 1980s Australia, no figure burned brighter — or fell harder — than Christopher Skase,...
The Dam Busters
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Edition: Second 1955 reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew missions in the annals of aerial warfare have captured the imagination quite like Operation Chastise —...
Lucinda Brayford
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLucinda Brayford is a sweeping, multi-generational saga that traces the life of its luminous protagonist from the sun-drenched colonial society of late nineteenth-century Australia...
The Nor'-Westers
$35.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the sun-scorched, cyclone-battered coastline of Australia's rugged north-west comes a...
White Man, Black Man: The True Story Of A White Man Who Was Initiated Into An Aboriginal Tribe
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA remarkable true account, White Man, Black Man chronicles the extraordinary journey of a white man who crossed one of the most profound cultural...
Pocahontas: Or The Nonparell Of Virginia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most iconic figures in American colonial history, Pocahontas — the Powhatan princess who bridged two civilisations — receives a...
The Secret Gospel: The Discovery And Interpretation Of The Secret Gospel According To Mark
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn one of the twentieth century's most electrifying scholarly controversies, Morton Smith recounts his 1958 discovery at the ancient Mar...
True History Of The Kelly Gang
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodNed Kelly — bushranger, outlaw, and Australia's most enduring folk hero — narrates his own turbulent life in...
Flight From Torregreca: Strangers And Pilgrims
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the poverty-stricken villages of southern Italy's Basilicata region, something quietly devastating was happening — a mass exodus of an entire way...
Backing Into The Limelight: A Biography Of T.E. Lawrence
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodHe was a scholar, a soldier, a strategist, and an enigma — T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, remains one...
The Moon's A Balloon
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of Hollywood's most charming and beloved figures, David Niven, presents his life story with the same wit,...
A Way To Die: The Story Of Jane Zorza
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA Way to Die is a deeply moving and profoundly humane account of one young woman's final journey,...
Lawrence Of Arabia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern history have captured the world's imagination quite like T.E. Lawrence — soldier,...
Dear Me
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly multifaceted minds turns the lens of scrutiny upon...
Bwana Game
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before wildlife conservation became a global cause, one man walked among lions on the vast, sun-scorched plains...