Biography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the bright lights of Broadway, The Days Grow Short: The Life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every screaming headline lies a story that the public never fully sees — and Deadline by Alan Dower tears back the curtain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen the shadow of fascism fell across Europe in the 1930s, a generation of brilliant composers, conductors, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA journey unlike any other awaits in Round Trip, a work by Australian author Miles Little that charts a deeply human passage through illness, mortality,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at the epicentre of the twentieth century's most turbulent moments, In Time of Trouble is the autobiography of Claud...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind barbed wire, in the shadow of watchtowers and relentless uncertainty, one man's story of survival unfolds with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the hungry years of the 1930s, when bread queues snaked through Australia's cities and families...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the great waves of migration that shaped the modern world, few stories are as vivid and compelling as that of the Chinese diaspora — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the annals of sporting legend, few stories are as electrifying — or as improbable — as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-dappled streets and parlours of early twentieth-century Melbourne, a young girl comes of age against a backdrop of iron-laced fences, bluestone foundations, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the age of jet travel transformed the skies into a global highway, a small but determined band...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerNestled within the story of one of Australia's most storied institutions, Mount Royal: A Social History by Jean Uhl chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn The Vanished World, one of England's most beloved storytellers turns the lens upon himself, conjuring with extraordinary...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the grand verandahs and manicured gardens of Mount Royal lies a story that cuts to the heart of Australian social history —...

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Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingShe was born Helen Porter Mitchell in a modest Melbourne suburb, yet she would conquer the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before Queenstown, New Zealand became a global adventure tourism destination, one pioneering aviator was already writing his...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA searing memoir from one of the twentieth century's most restless and searching intellectual minds, The Invisible Writing chronicles Arthur Koestler's turbulent years as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, one of the Third Reich's first and most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingNestled in the quiet hills of Concord, New Hampshire, St. Paul's School stands as one of America's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the darkest crossroads of poverty and resilience, Weevils in the Flour presents a raw and unflinching oral...