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The Dust of Uruzgan

The Dust of Uruzgan

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Author: Fred Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Fred Smith has been described as 'Australia's secret weapon' in international diplomacy. As a career diplomat, he served for two years...
The Road from Coorain

The Road from Coorain

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Author: Jill K. Conway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In this memoir the author describes her isolated childhood in the Australian outback. She became her father's farmhand, and when...
People I Have Shot

People I Have Shot

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Author: Sebastian Rich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 0
A Month At The Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

A Month At The Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

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Author: Unknown Unknown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1 Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells...
How Did You Get This Number

How Did You Get This Number

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Author: Sloane Crosley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness?...
The Cure for Sleep

The Cure for Sleep

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Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Just days...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

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Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 "A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian 'Breath-taking...
Conclusions

Conclusions

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Author: John Boorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'What a life! What a career!' - Harold Pinter 'Boorman is one of the world's great directors, a master storyteller.' -...
And Still I Rise

And Still I Rise

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Author: Doreen Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in south-east London. From...
Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery

Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery

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Author: Jessica Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Following the birth of her first children, twin boys, Jessica Cornwell collapsed in a fever. Rushed back to hospital, she was...
Slowly Down the Ganges

Slowly Down the Ganges

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Author: Eric Newby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love...
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

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Author: Marcus J. Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Kendrick Lamar understands and employs blues, jazz, and soul in his music, which makes it startling. His work is more...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother

The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother

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Author: Ron Geesin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Celebrating more than 50 years of the groundbreaking Atom Heart Mother. By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd...
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters

The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters

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Author: Rachel Trethewey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous family who were on the frontline of history. Bright, attractive...
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

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Author: Michelle Dean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries...
What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

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Author: Kwane Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals...
Beaumonster: A Memoir

Beaumonster: A Memoir

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Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
One Last Thing: How to live with the end in mind

One Last Thing: How to live with the end in mind

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Author: Wendy Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: BIOGRAPHY The last book from bestselling author and advocate Wendy Mitchell 'This beautiful book will give...
The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture

The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture

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Author: Catriona Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Almost a quarter of women and one in twenty men have been sexually assaulted or had attempts made 9 out of...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it'...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

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Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Unravelling Us

Unravelling Us

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Author: Renee McBryde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret...
Trouble Brewing in the Loire

Trouble Brewing in the Loire

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Author: Tommy Barnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 234 Burt, the hound of Beelzebub, has risen from the dead, Gadget the miniature horse has moved into the kitchen and Tommy...
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

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Author: Meriel Schindler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...
Bourdain: In Stories

Bourdain: In Stories

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Author: Laurie Woolever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Powerful and profound' Esquire 'Unbridled and unapologetic' Vogue When Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around...
Bourdain: In Stories

Bourdain: In Stories

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Author: Laurie Woolever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'This unique oral history builds to a comprehensive portrait and an important biography' Observer 'Reveals a vulnerable side to the man...
These Precious Days

These Precious Days

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Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A BARACK OBAMA TOP BOOK OF 2021 'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to...
Year of the Monkey

Year of the Monkey

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Author: Patti Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Selected as Book of the Year by...
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

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Author: Coretta Scott King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Coretta is more relevant today than ever . . . a female who takes responsibility for creating something better in...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...
Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock'n'Roll War Stories

Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock'n'Roll War Stories

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Author: Allan Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones...
My Father's Glass Eye

My Father's Glass Eye

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Author: Jeannie Vanasco Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 266 My Father's Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honour her father, her larger-than-life hero, but also the man who named her...
A Long View From the Left: From the CPA to the ALP, a lifetime of fighting for Australian workers' rights: 2020

A Long View From the Left: From the CPA to the ALP, a lifetime of fighting for Australian workers' rights: 2020

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Author: Max Ogden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A Long View From the Left is a memoir by Max Odgen, a longtime Australian Communist Party member, Unionist and, from...
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

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Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "A tonic . . . Splendid . . . A...
Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

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Author: Brianna Madia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with...
Mr Rosenblum's List

Mr Rosenblum's List

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Author: Natasha Solomons Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
The Comfort Book: Special Winter Edition

The Comfort Book: Special Winter Edition

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Author: Matt Haig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - FEATURING A NEW CHAPTER ON WINTER COMFORTS Reflections on hope, survival and the...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 An inside look at President Richard Nixon's administration and epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

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Author: Kwane Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals...
Harry Potter: Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal

Harry Potter: Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal, a new addition to Insight...
Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'...
Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub)

Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub)

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Author: Clara Batten Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was. I'd have to say that it's...
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

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Author: Mia Mercado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK * A NYLON MUST-READ * A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN...