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Sub-Categories of Biography
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson...
Hunter S. Thompson
Diaries, letters & journals; Society & Social Sciences
Paperback
This definitive, hand-picked selection of Thompson's finest pieces ever published in Rolling Stone showcases the evolution... [more]
Dead Men's Silver: The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter
Hugh Edwards
Biography; Biography: general; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Maritime history; Geographical discovery & exploration; Ships & shipping: general interest
Paperback
This is a romantic story of shipwreck hunting, with pieces-of-eight, Dutch ducatons, German talers, Burgundian crowns, and... [more]
Modigliani: A Life
Meryle Secrest
History of Art & Design Styles; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Biography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment
Hardback
Secrest, respected biographer of art world personalities (Being Bernard Berenson), musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, and... [more]
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
James Bell
Biography; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Diaries, letters & journals; History; Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Geographical discovery & exploration; Expeditions
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On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London... [more]
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Reluctant Democrat: Sir William Denison in Australia 1847-1861
J. M. Bennett
Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; Public administration; Jurisprudence & general issues; Systems of law
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Aristocrat by birth, autocrat by nature, and officer of the Royal Engineers by training, Sir William Denison became a Governor... [more]
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection...
Judith Flanders
Biography; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Crime & criminology
Paperback
'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done... [more]
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Life without the Boring Bits
Colleen McCullough
Biography; Autobiography: literary
Hardback
World famous writer Colleen McCullough has always resisted the idea of producing an autobiography, pleading as her excuse... [more]
Pack of Bloody Animals: The Walsh Street Murders Revisited
John Kerr, Ray Mooney
Biography; True crime; Cultural studies; Social services & welfare, criminology
Paperback
The killings referred to as ‘Walsh Street’ arose when police and armed robbers went to war. Both sides, convinced the other... [more]
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Mawson's Forgotten Men: The 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull...
Heather Rossiter
Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; Expeditions
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Charles Turnbull Harrisson (1867-1914) was one of the members of Douglas Mawson's legendary Australasian Antarctic Expedition... [more]
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Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple-personality...
Debbie Nathan
Biography: general; Popular culture; Hoaxes & deceptions; Psychology; Psychiatry; Coping with anxiety & phobias
Paperback
The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the international bestseller and smash hit movie. [more]
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Van Gogh
Gregory White Smith, Steven Naifeh
Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: general
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Vincent van Gogh created some of the best loved - and most expensive - works of art ever made, from the early The Potato... [more]
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The Gentry: Stories of the English
Adam Nicolson
Biography: general; History; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Social classes
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Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write - the real story of England. It is the gentry that... [more]
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival
Caroline Moorehead
Autobiography: historical, political & military; History; The Holocaust; Second World War
Paperback
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps... [more]
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
Biography; Autobiography: literary
Hardback
Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. [more]
The Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
Thomas Penn
Biography: historical, political & military; History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
Hardback
Tells the story of Henry VII's time as King, and the fraught and unstable birth of Tudor England. Rich with incident and drama,... [more]
Death in the City of Light: The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised...
David King
Biography; True crime; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust
Paperback
The sensational true story of the serial killer who stalked the streets of Nazi-occupied Paris. [more]
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund De Waal
Carvings: artworks; Biography; Biography: general
Hardback
Presents photographs of the celebrated netsuke collection - 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than... [more]
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Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Eric Ives
Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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Lady Jane Grey, is one of the most elusive and tragic characters in English history. In July 1553 the death of the childless... [more]
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The Boleyns: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family
David Loades
Biography: historical, political & military; History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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A magnificent tale of family rivalry and intrigue set against Henry VIII's court. [more]
Jack of All Trades Mistress of One
Grahame Bond
Television; Biography; Memoirs
Paperback
Things were never quite the same once Aunty Jack roared onto our television screens in the 1970s, threatening to rip our bloody... [more]
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Come the Revolution: A Memoir
Alex Mitchell
Biography; Memoirs
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In Come the Revolution, journalist Alex Mitchell gives a rollicking account of life in newspapers and his radical past as... [more]
After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
Paul Keating
Biography; Prose: non-fiction; Literary essays; Anthologies (non-poetry); Social issues & processes; Politics & government
Hardback
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. [more]
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII
Nicholas Rankin
Biography; British & Irish history; Second World War; Special & elite forces; Military intelligence
Hardback
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure... [more]
Charles Dickens: A Life
Claire Tomalin
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: literary; Literature: history & criticism
Hardback
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller,... [more]
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Walter Isaacson
Biography; Biography: business & industry; Information technology industries
Hardback
* An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed... [more]
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