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In Italy the Cardinal Vicar of Rome is assassinated during a celebration for the Pope's birthday. In Los Angeles Harry Addison, a highly successful entertainment lawyer, finds a desperate message...

Exploring art from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th-century these indispensable guides are ideal for both students and enthusiasts. Each volume focuses on the...

A unique and nostalgic coming- of-age memoir that is set against the backdrop of the 1960s and '70s British music scene. A star-struck, naive 17-year-old country bumpkin leaves her Mum,...

Today, the Western world's knowledge of the gladiator-slave Spartacus comes from the Kirk Douglas epic released in 1960. But did Spartacus really come close to changing the structure of the...

Zoe is an interior designer with a unique sense of style. But even more uncanny is her sense of what s going on under the surface, the secrets a house...

Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist,...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE ENGLISH WOMAN WHO FOOLED THE VATICAN. The legend of Pope Joan - the woman who, dressed as a man, headed the Catholic church in the...

The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history. The domineering paternal influence of Karl Wittgenstein left his eight children fraught by inner...

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the...

Despite having once been sacked from the shadow front bench, Boris Johnson is still widely seen as one of the stars of the Conservative Party. His distinctive appearance ('Like a...

Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain...

The book titled Star Man: The Right Hand Man of Rock 'n' Roll by the author Michael Francis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

'Cake Wrecks' are professionally made cakes that for some reason are unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate, or perhaps just plain ugly. This book features photographs of some of these creations.

Brian Corrigan began his working life as a country doctor but rose to become a leading rheumatologist, and one of Australia's greatest sports doctors. His decades of medical intervention, treating...

We all think we know Alan Bond: larger than life, a flamboyant, mesmerising tycoon - a man who went from being Australia's bona fide hero for his Americas Cup win...

Since her literary debut with the highly praised Mage Heart, fantasist Jane Routley has captivated readers with her noteworthy mixture of 'cleverness, subtlety, and emotion' Locus Now, following the epic...

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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), the son of a well-to-do miller from the university town of Leiden, was by the age of 26 Holland's most celebrated painter and has remained an...

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced...

'A welcome reassessment of one of the great forgotten mavericks of British science' (Sunday Telegraph) - the man who almost scooped Darwin. In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated...

In this memoir, Marlon Brando talks of his struggle to become an actor, of his remarkable career first on the stage and then in film, and of his on- and...

Roger Fisher and William Ury bring you a simple, step-by-step guide to give you the skills you need to negotiate successfully in every situation. We all want to get to...

A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided...

The Haunted Library is a new collection of classic ghost stories many of which have never before been anthologized from the golden age of the genre in the late 19th...

Blanche Greypaull is a wild, independent beauty, her hopes high as she sets out for London. Leaving behind her the years of poverty in Taunton's slums and her unhappy childhood,...

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These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, 'The Gorgon Flower'. A young...

The must-read new crime novel from the bestselling author of Crows Nest Small Town. Big Secrets. The second Dana Gibson mystery. Child protection worker Dana Gibson arrives in the sleepy...

A Descant for Gossips was Thea Astley's second novel, released in 1960 in England and Australia. In 1983 it was successfully adapted for television by the ABC. In this classic...

The human guinea-pigs have returned, this time to answer the question- 'How do I get this stuff out of me?' The human guinea-pigs have returned, this time to answer the...

Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award for his novel The Day of the Dog in 1980, he has become an important voice in contemporary Indigenous writing....

When a newborn baby is found abandoned in a backyard, this dramatic event pierces the lives of three very different women. Laura has returned home for her mother's funeral after...

Twenty-five years later, Wilson's nephew Bill decides to tell some of the stories hidden beneath his own family's silence. He finds a letter, written before he was born, by a...

The best of Carey's short fiction features here, drawn from work published previously in his two anthologies "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes".

Jules Van Erp has presence. After a devastating road accident, he can still effortlessly create such architectural masterpieces as the Pavilion of Flight, but he cannot face the emotional legacy...

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Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help...

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor...

As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history. Born in Ireland...

The bone flute she wore at her neck.He touched the crescent-shaped curio. "You are Ilois," he said.It was the first time she had ever heard him use the word. The...

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Aviator, playboy, film producer, entrepreneur and recluse, Howard Hughes commanded newspaper headlines throughout his career. Yet, as authors Barlett and Steele reveal in this definitive and highly acclaimed biography, the...

A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming and catapult the winner...