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The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work,...

First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...

The book titled The Perfect Stranger by the author P. J. Kavanagh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in the twentieth century have been as extraordinary or as consequential as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the front lines of a world at war comes The Wounded Don't Cry, a gripping first-hand account by Quentin Reynolds, one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew journalists of the twentieth century bore witness to history with the moral clarity and narrative force of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies above wartime Britain, a young RAF pilot composed what would become one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in twentieth-century American entertainment can claim a career as sweeping and remarkable as Norman Lloyd's —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingHigh above the jungle canopy, where maps end and faith begins, Into the Glory chronicles one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the fog-shrouded newsrooms of Fleet Street to the sun-scorched front lines of global conflicts, Deadline & Dateline...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFor over a century, ordinary Australians have performed extraordinary acts of courage — and 7000 Brave Australians chronicles the remarkable story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA landmark in Australian military and social history, Fathers Anonymous chronicles the remarkable legacy of the Legacy movement...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingLong before Afghanistan became a byword for conflict and geopolitical strife, the poet and classicist Peter Levi traversed its ancient landscapes and returned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingJohn Pudney — poet, novelist, and RAF veteran — presents one of the most disarmingly candid self-portraits in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen Australia switched on its national broadcaster, few could have predicted the storms of controversy, political interference, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the thick of the world's most devastating conflict, one man armed with nothing but a notepad and an unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodHigh above the breathtaking mountain ranges and shimmering lakes of New Zealand's South Island, a legend was born — and Popeye Lucas Queenstown chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the frontlines of the Second World War to the turbulent corridors of post-war diplomacy, Wars Without End chronicles the remarkable life of Eric Downton,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBefore the age of commercial flight, one man dared to conquer the vast and unforgiving skies of Australia — Andy is the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the wind-swept hills of nineteenth-century pioneers to the sleek, silent giants of modern competition soaring, The Story of Gliding chronicles one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, few organisations demonstrated greater resilience and moral courage than the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pioneering days of aviation to the jet age, The History of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators 1929–1964 chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA career spent chasing stories, meeting deadlines, and bearing witness to history — By Deadline to Headline is the memoir of Jack Coulter, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the brutal trenches of the Western Front to the hard-won armistice of 1918, Through Mud...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the formative decades between the two World Wars, a small band of visionary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the thundering roar of propeller-driven warbirds to the supersonic scream of modern jets, Flight...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of Patrick White's final novel lies one of literature's most haunting and elusive protagonists — Eddie Twyborn,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew personalities in twentieth-century Australian media commanded a room — or a microphone — quite like Eric Baume....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. "Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871" is a work of political and economic history that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever — and Walter Lord's Day of Infamy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedBehind every great newspaper lies a story of power, principle, and the relentless pressure of the press — and The Editor Regrets...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe seized a throne that was never meant to be hers, yet went on to become the most...

Edition: bomcCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence, A Perfect Spy stands as John le Carré's most searingly autobiographical work — a masterful...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in twentieth-century Australian education commanded the reverence and lasting influence of Sir James Ralph Darling, and Richly Rewarding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of Australia's most controversial and enduring true stories comes alive in Kit Denton's The Breaker, a gripping account of Harry Breaker Morant — bush poet,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCaddie is one of Australia's most remarkable and enduring autobiographical works — a raw, unfiltered account of a woman's desperate struggle to survive the grinding poverty...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew directors in the history of cinema have provoked as much intellectual fervour and artistic reverence as the Swedish master...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the most explosive political scandals in modern European history — the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the highways of Australia were clogged with modern rigs and GPS trackers, a young man climbed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to live a life of unwavering faith, burning passion, and hard-won resilience? Memoirs of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Little Women chronicles the lives of the four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew memoirs capture the warmth and absurdity of family life with the precision and wit of Life With Father, Clarence Day's beloved autobiographical masterpiece....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn one of the most viscerally honest accounts of maritime life ever committed to paper, Two Years Before the Mast chronicles Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s harrowing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great waltz lies a story of survival — and The Barbed Wire Waltz: The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew journalists have witnessed the defining conflicts of the twentieth century with the audacity and access of Wilfred...