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Sub-Categories of Biography
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Red Zone Baghdad: My War In Iraq
Colonel Marcus Fielding
Memoirs; History; Warfare & defence
Paperback
When Colonel Marcus Fielding returned home from his tour of duty in Baghdad, a taxi driver asked him what it was like being... [more]
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My Life in Shorts: Growing Pains and Painful Growths - Memoirs of a Barossa...
H.G. Nelson
Biography; Autobiography: general; Sports & outdoor recreation
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H.G. Nelson Australia's foremost sports commentator, cultural critic, social observer and loud-mouthed heckler is a legend... [more]
May Gibbs: More Than a Fairy Tale
Jane Brummitt, Robert Holden
Illustration; Biography; Biography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment
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May Gibbs is one of Australia's best-known illustrators and her gum-nut babies have been adored by generations of children.... [more]
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Dickens and Women: 'My Father Did Not Understand Women' Katey Dickens
Anne Isba
Biography; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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A book on a controversial aspect of Dickens' personality published for his bi-centennial year. It provides an account of the... [more]
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Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt...
John Bailey
Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; History; Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Geographical discovery & exploration
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Alive with the period, the details of early exploration, the experience of the harsh Australian landscape and the quirks of... [more]
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Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen
Catherine Speck
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; History
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Heysen to Heysen is a showcase of letters between Nora and Hans Heysen from the collection of the National Library of Australia.... [more]
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Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings
Peter Corris
Biography; True crime
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William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years.... [more]
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A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends
Michael Kirby
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Legal skills & practice; Legal profession: general
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Michael Kirby is Australia's most admired judicial figure. He has written and lectured extensively about the law, but has... [more]
War and Peace and Sonya
Judith M. Armstrong
Biography: general; Literature: history & criticism; Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives... [more]
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Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister
Anne Henderson
Biography; Political leaders & leadership; Central government
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This landmark book re-establishes Lyons as one of Australia's most capable popular leaders reminds us of why he was the first... [more]
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The Life of Charles Dickens: The Illustrated Edition
John Forster
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: literary
Hardback
Illuminates extracts from Dickens' own work and from criticism, biography and fiction. This title is illustrated with materials... [more]
Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff
Biography: historical, political & military; History; African history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned... [more]
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Caligula: A Biography
Aloys Winterling
Biography: historical, political & military; History; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from AD 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. This book sets the... [more]
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Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned
John A. Farrell
Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; History; Law & society; Legal profession: general
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Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, John A. Farrell's Clarence Darrow is the definitive biography... [more]
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Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles
A.J. Brown
Biography; Biography: general; History; Legal profession: general
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Deals with Michael Kirby's public life from his first forays as a student politician in the early 1960s, to his appointments... [more]
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Happiest Refugee: My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy
Anh Do
Other performing arts; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians. [more]
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Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens
Richard Seymour
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; Politics & government; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Media, information & communication industries; Press & journalism
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Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist [more]
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Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten
Pamela Hicks
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general
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<div><strong>ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK</strong> ----- There's something rather delicious about reading tales of the British... [more]
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Bigwig: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Tony Mokbel
Liam Houlihan
Biography; True crime; Drugs trade & trafficking
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Top crime writer Liam Houlihan documents the extraordinary rise and fall of the man they call Fat Tony, from his ascension... [more]
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Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music
Burt Bacharach
Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year... [more]
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
Annie Proulx
Biography; Memoirs
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Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich... [more]
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Satan's Choice: My Life as a Hard Core Biker with Satan's Choice and Hell's...
Lorne Campbell, Peter Edwards
Biography; Memoirs; True crime
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A gripping, no-holds-barred story of life as an enforcer for two of the world's most dangerous biker societies. [more]
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A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar
Biography; Autobiography: general; Middle Eastern history
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The author's young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war, the rise of the Taliban,... [more]
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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Sarah Gristwood
Biography: historical, political & military; History; British & Irish history; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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From best-selling historian, Sarah Gristwood comes the true story behind Philippa Gregory's recent novels - the women who... [more]
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Eugenia: A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage
Mark Tedeschi
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; True crime
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The true crime account of Eugenia Falleni, a woman who in 1920 was charged with the murder of her wife.This is the true crime... [more]
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