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George Reid

George Reid

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Author: W. G. McminnBinding: HardbackPublished: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1989Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGeorge Reid presents a comprehensive biography of one of Australia's most significant political figures....
A Bunyip Close Behind Me: Recollections Of The Nineties

A Bunyip Close Behind Me: Recollections Of The Nineties

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Author: Eugénie McneilBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hawthorn Press, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir chronicles a life lived through the transformative 1890s, offering an intimate glimpse into...
Bolte From Bamganie

Bolte From Bamganie

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Author: Barry MuirBinding: HardbackPublished: HILL OF CONTENT, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the remarkable life and political career of Henry Bolte, a...
A Victorian Diarist: Extracts From The Journals Of Mary, Lady Monkswell 1873-1895

A Victorian Diarist: Extracts From The Journals Of Mary, Lady Monkswell 1873-1895

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Author: Hon. E. C. F. CollierBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1944Condition:Book: PoorJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA Victorian Diarist: Extracts From The Journals Of Mary (Lady Monksmell) 1873-1895...
That Damned Democrat: John Norton, An Australian Populist, 1858-1916

That Damned Democrat: John Norton, An Australian Populist, 1858-1916

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Author: Michael CannonBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the tumultuous life and controversial political career of John Norton, a prominent...
Hubert Murray: The Australian Pro-Consul

Hubert Murray: The Australian Pro-Consul

$25.00 AUD
Author: Francis WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1968Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Hubert Murray: The Australian Pro-Consul, chronicles the remarkable career...
The Familiar Presence: And Other Reminiscences

The Familiar Presence: And Other Reminiscences

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Author: A. R. ChisholmBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA. R. Chisholm's The Familiar Presence: And Other Reminiscences presents a captivating collection...
Radclyffe Hall: A Case Of Obscenity?

Radclyffe Hall: A Case Of Obscenity?

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Author: Vera BrittainBinding: HardbackPublished: A Femina Book, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling work of literary history chronicles the infamous obscenity trial surrounding...
Tolstoy

Tolstoy

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Author: Henri TroyatBinding: HardbackPublished: W. H. ALLEN, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsHenri Troyat's Tolstoy chronicles the tumultuous life of one of Russia's most celebrated literary giants. This...
Advice To My Grand-Daughter: Letters From Queen Victoria To Princess Victoria Of Hesse

Advice To My Grand-Daughter: Letters From Queen Victoria To Princess Victoria Of Hesse

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Author: Richard HoughBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markings'Advice To My Grand-Daughter: Letters From Queen Victoria To Princess Victoria Of Hesse presents...
Crowded Galleries. With Chapters on Tennis by Sir Norman Brookes.

Crowded Galleries. With Chapters on Tennis by Sir Norman Brookes.

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Author: Dame Mabel Brookes; Sir Norman BrookesBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCrowded Galleries presents a vivid social tapestry, chronicling...
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

$49.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory,Code Switch, NPR) What does it...
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke

Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke

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John Clarke was best known as Fred Dagg in New Zealand and for 'The Games' and 'Clarke and Dawe' in Australia. He was a performer, actor, writer, satirist and commentator....
My Amalfi Coast

My Amalfi Coast

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An evocatively personal travel guide to one of Italy's most glorious regions, from an Australian who lived and loved it for 18 years. Australian Gourmet Traveller My Amalfi Coast is...
What About Your Saucepans?

What About Your Saucepans?

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Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle - marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars - to pursue her dream of being a SCUBA diving instructor....
The Last Days of the Bus Club

The Last Days of the Bus Club

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It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to...
What Was I Thinking

What Was I Thinking

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Bestselling hilarious memoir from New Zealand's most controversial media star. B> aul Henry is a natural-born story teller who spins a great yarn, and who says, 'I'll apologise for hurting...
Birds: Coping with An Obsession: One Man's Journey Through 50 Years of

Birds: Coping with An Obsession: One Man's Journey Through 50 Years of

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Passionate birdwatcher and conservationist Derek Moore has been an instrumental figure in British ornithology for more than half a century. Renowned as one of birding's best story-tellers, Derek takes a...
Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face: 12 Things

Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face: 12 Things

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Tony is a champion who knows the hardest battle is always with yourself. Everyone who reads this book will find a change to...
Raise The Bar: How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Build a Stronger

Raise The Bar: How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Build a Stronger

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'Ben Alldis is a force. His attitude and drive are contagious.' - Max La Manna, author of You Can Cook This! 'This is more than a self-help book, it is...
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris - 80th

D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris - 80th

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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Produced in collaboration with Imperial War Museums Relive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign...
Backyard to Backpack: A solo mum, a six year old and a life-changing

Backyard to Backpack: A solo mum, a six year old and a life-changing

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What if you followed your heart to a life that made you truly happy? When her daughter Emmie was 6 years old, Evie Farrell left her corporate career, sold or...
My Windows, My Views ... My Life and Travels: Stories from a long life

My Windows, My Views ... My Life and Travels: Stories from a long life

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As a child of a British air force family, Barbara was troubled by the absence of a stable home-life, a difficult relationship with her father, and too many school changes...
Bike Riding in Kabul

Bike Riding in Kabul

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Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly "feline sex-fest" in Kyiv, bribing Russian police to avoid jail in Mos-cow, sheltering under the sink (with the lizards) when the ammo...
The Bells of Nagasaki

The Bells of Nagasaki

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A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of one of the most infamous events in history- the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. 'A book that everyone should read' The Times A harrowing, heart-rending...
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
The must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, based on the iconic 'Modern Love' essay in the New York Times and perfect...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir

Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir

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Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out - three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her...
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'Every page of this incredible memoir by Christie Tate had me thinking, "I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It would...
Mountain to Mountain

Mountain to Mountain

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Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a...
Walking for Peace, an Inner Journey

Walking for Peace, an Inner Journey

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The course of one's life never unfolds quite as we imagine it would. While traveling to gain perspective on her life, Mony, a Lebanese-Canadian woman feels called to walk an...
My Pilgrim's Heart: A Woman's Journey Through Marriage and Other

My Pilgrim's Heart: A Woman's Journey Through Marriage and Other

$29.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
My Pilgrim's Heart is a beautifully written story about simultaneous journeys: a woman's pilgrimage across the landscapes of Italy and Eastern Europe and a marriage on the line. At 48,...
Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier

Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier

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A devastating fire prompts the bestselling author of Narrow Dog to Carcassonne to go on a meandering and very funny narrow boat journey north and look back on his rather...
Mary Tudor: The First Queen

Mary Tudor: The First Queen

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A striking and sympathetic portrait of England's first Queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years. Instead of the bloodthirsty bigot of Protestant mythology, Mary...
Next Chapter Travel

Next Chapter Travel

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"Because life is short and we've still got places to see." Four years after their last global journey - and with cancer, recovery, and lockdowns finally behind them - Emma...
Life In A Postcard

Life In A Postcard

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Rosemary Bailey's enthralling account of her quest to make a 21st century home out of a ruined French medieval monastery. 'I wake to the sun striking gold on a stone...
A Higher Calling: Pursuing Love, Faith, and Mount Everest for a

A Higher Calling: Pursuing Love, Faith, and Mount Everest for a

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The husband and wife team behind the popular Earls Family Vlogs share their inspiring love story for the first time, revealing how an expedition to climb Mount Everest deepened their...
I'm Down: A Memoir

I'm Down: A Memoir

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighbourhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. He strutted around with a short perm, a...
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and a driving desire to thrive A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's world. 'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a...
Under an Indian Sky: Ten Years in a Bihar Village

Under an Indian Sky: Ten Years in a Bihar Village

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A captivating story set in India's vibrant landscape. Explores love, culture, and personal transformation. Rich in evocative descriptions and historical depth. A must-read for lovers of immersive storytelling.
Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain

Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain

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Brilliant, funny, powerfully evocative - the young English author of Duende! and his Spanish wife set out to create a magical garden high in remote Spanish mountains. Jason Webster had...
Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering,

Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering,

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
A beautifully illustrated gift book celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship. Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation. While researching...
Just a Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53

Just a Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53

$21.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by...
When Does the Mind-Bending Start?: The Life and Times of World of

When Does the Mind-Bending Start?: The Life and Times of World of

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A Times Book of the Year 'Most underrated group? World of Twist.' - LIAM GALLAGHER 'They're a top band. No one could do what World of Twist do, except World...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation

Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation

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My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
For Keeps: A window into the fascinating world of zookeeping

For Keeps: A window into the fascinating world of zookeeping

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For Keeps takes us into the world of Melbourne zookeeper Noel Harcourt and all the unique and often unpredictable personalities both human and non-human he encountered over the decades of...
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book

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SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A...
"Daily Telegraph" Book of Obituaries: v.5: 20th Century Lives

"Daily Telegraph" Book of Obituaries: v.5: 20th Century Lives

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The book titled "Daily Telegraph" Book of Obituaries: v.5: 20th Century Lives. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.