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Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives
What can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions,...
Max and Mia's Story
From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care. Parents Angelina and Ben exist in enviable luxury: not just wealth,...
Bacon in Moscow
'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' - Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to...
A Biker's Life: Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels
I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car. When you're driving a car, you're not taking part, you're a spectator. You're in a can;...
Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital,
A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt essays, described as...
Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood
Yesterday Morning is a vivid recollection of Diana Athill's joyful beginnings. It is also a remarkable insight into a now vanished world; this is England in the 1920s, seen with...
Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of
The revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination against women in science. Emmy Noether is one...
Whatever Next?: The unmissable sequel to the runaway bestseller LADY
Advice, insight and hilarious revelations from the bestselling author of LADY IN WAITING - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAY 'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the...
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. A luminous...
A Visible Man: The Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the
* AS HEARD ON STEPHEN BARTLETT'S DIARY OF A CEO * * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'I wish he could...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of
THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW EMOTIONS THERE,...
Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War
"Hamish has been one of my closest comrades on the front line. Completely fearless, he is one of the leading chemical weapons expert on the globe. His training has saved...
The Woman I Am: A Memoir
With her song 'I Am Woman', Helen Reddy provided the feminist anthem of the 1970s. In this highly anticipated memoir, Helen reveals that she is much more than the entertainer...
Morrissey Autobiography
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"Autobiography" covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982 1987),...
Waiting For Hitler
In late summer 1940, Hitler told his army to prepare to invade England. The nation waited, breathless with tension, for the Nazi threat to become real. Acclaimed author Midge Gillies...
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story
The uplifting true story of a London children's home dispatched to rural England during the Blitz, the Lady in Waiting who opened up her home, and the matron who changed...
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...
My Family: The Memoir
'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN 'A masterpiece ' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM...
Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4098
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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4098 Twenty-two books of biography, autobiography and memoir — from Paul Hogan and Yehudi Menuhin to Vinnie Jones, Chris Patten and Hunter S....
Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP3016
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Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP3016 Sixteen true crime titles spanning Australian crime, American murder, false imprisonment, serial killers and the hidden world of Bali's drug trade. Strong Australian...
Secondhand Religious Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4093
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Secondhand Religious Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4093 An extraordinary collection of academic theology and religious philosophy, centred heavily on Don Cupitt — the Cambridge philosopher-priest who spent decades dismantling traditional...
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078
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Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078 A rich, varied mix of cultural writing, memoir and social commentary. Books on race, identity, the body, deafness, ballet, the internet, menopause, photography and...
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079
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Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079 A wonderfully broad box of non-fiction — popular science, sharp cultural writing, business, nature, humour and self-help all represented. Hawking on cosmology, Bryson on...
Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076
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Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076 Twenty books spanning ancient history, WWII, military history, classical civilisation and modern political biography. From the Greeks and Romans to the Dambusters,...
Bernard Shaw And The Actresses
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw....
Fanny Burney
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew women of the eighteenth century wielded a pen with such quiet brilliance as Frances Fanny Burney — novelist, diarist, and reluctant courtier —...
Victorian Visionaries
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...
The World Of Entertainment: Hollywood's Greatest Musicals
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the golden age of Hollywood, one studio unit stood apart from all others — the Freed Unit at MGM...
Gandhi: Prisoner Of Hope
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in modern history have captivated the world's imagination quite like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — a man who, armed with nothing but moral...
Jo'K: The Official Johnny O'Keefe Story
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's first rock 'n' roll superstar blazed a trail so incandescent that no biography could afford to ignore...
Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life And Violent Death On The Colonial Frontier
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the might of the British Empire swept across the Australian continent, there were...
The Vivisector
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingTo create is to wound — and no novel captures this brutal truth more ferociously than Patrick White's...
Among The Believers: An Islamic Journey
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul embarked on an extraordinary journey through four non-Arab Muslim nations —...
Luke: An Introduction And Commentary
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew texts in the ancient world have shaped Western civilization as profoundly as the Gospel of Luke, and Leon Morris's authoritative commentary brings this...
Jean Rhys's Letters 1931-1966
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the polished prose of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary voices lies a turbulent inner world, now laid bare in Jean...
Fabian Feminist: Bernard Shaw And Woman
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of socialist politics and feminist thought stands George Bernard Shaw — playwright, provocateur, and unlikely champion of women's autonomy...
The Great Shame: A Story Of The Irish In The Old World And The New
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew sagas in modern history carry the weight of suffering, resilience, and reinvention that defines the Irish diaspora...
Victoria R.I.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...
Napoleon
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in Western history cast as long a shadow as Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican-born general whose military genius and relentless ambition reshaped the map of...
The Young Rebecca: Writings Of Rebecca West 1911-1917
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedThe Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911–1917 presents a electrifying portrait of one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds at the...
Is There A Life After Birth?
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWith a title as audaciously irreverent as the man himself, Is There a Life After Birth? presents Alexander King at...
Stunting In The Cinema
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before CGI replaced flesh-and-bone daring, it was the stuntman — anonymous, unsung, and uninsured — who threw himself from speeding trains, burst through walls...
Ottoline: The Life Of Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the turbulent heart of early twentieth-century British intellectual life stood one of its most captivating and contradictory figures —...
The Immigrants
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBetween 1890 and 1970, seventeen men and women made the long journey to Australia from the far corners of the world — Austria, China, England,...
Nobel Prize Winners
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Edition: First Edition Thus.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedBehind every Nobel Prize lies a story of obsession, sacrifice, and the relentless pursuit of human understanding...
Going It Alone: Australia's National Identity In The Twentieth Century
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be Australian? Going It Alone: Australia's National Identity in the Twentieth Century confronts this...