Biography

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most candid and psychologically acute memoirs in the English language, Father and Son chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most forceful and influential works of literary criticism written in the twentieth century, F....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodPublished in Melbourne in 1971, Deeds Not Words by Wilson P. Evans is a work rooted in Australian history and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dying months of the First World War, a bold and visionary experiment in aerial warfare was launched — the Independent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the vast, sun-scorched expanses of the Australian outback, where the nearest hospital could be hundreds of miles away, a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of Australia's most baffling and enduring criminal mysteries comes to life in The Pyjama Girl, Robert Coleman's gripping account...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the chaos of the world's most brutal conflicts, a breed of Australian journalists risked everything to bring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the earliest days of canvas and wire contraptions rattling into the Australian sky to the jet-powered aircraft of the modern age, Box Kites...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged pastoral landscape of nineteenth-century Queensland, a family's story becomes the story of a nation. The Generations of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt a time when aviation was still a reckless gamble...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of faith and politics in mid-twentieth-century Australia stands one of the nation's most controversial...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of athletic greatness and wartime tragedy stands Nile Kinnick — Heisman Trophy winner, University of Iowa football...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the chaos of February 1942, thousands of civilians and soldiers fled the fall of Singapore aboard hastily assembled vessels, sailing into a nightmare of Japanese...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the years following the Second World War, Europe was a continent in constant...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Britain's wartime media establishment, Cecil H. King witnessed the Second World War not from the trenches, but from...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of privilege and catastrophe, Lady Cynthia Asquith's Diaries 1915-1918 presents an intimate, unfiltered chronicle of life in Britain during the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at full throttle across every corner of the globe — that is the extraordinary promise...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the myth of Howard Hughes — the reclusive billionaire, the aviation maverick, the shadowy puppet-master of American politics — lay a far stranger and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, An Interlude in Spain presents a gripping account of exile, captivity, and survival, set...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the annals of Australian aviation history, few mysteries have captured the nation's imagination quite like the disappearance of the Southern Cloud — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA life shaped by duty, distinction, and the turbulent currents of twentieth-century Britain — Score of Years is the memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the quiet walls of a great library lies a world of politics, perseverance, and passion — and Karel Axel Lodewycks pulls...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the microphones and broadcast towers of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation lay a world of personalities, politics, and press releases — and Bonnie McCallum...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the vast, sun-scorched reaches of the Australian outback, one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBefore he became the defining statesman of the twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the early 1870s, Claude Monet settled in the riverside town of Argenteuil, just outside Paris, and produced...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great poem is a human face — and Portraits of Poets brings those faces into unforgettable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodDeep within the remote Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania — one of the last great wilderness areas on Earth — naturalist and writer Peter...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA window into the mind of one of literature's greatest giants, Tolstoy's Letters presents a meticulously curated, two-volume collection of correspondence spanning over eight...

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