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Sub-Categories of Biography
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Craig McGregor
Biography; Autobiography: general
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Celebrated political and social commentator Craig McGregor has spent his working life holding a mirror to Australian society.... [more]
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Murder on the Home Front: A True Story of Morgues, Murderers and Mysteries...
Molly Lefebure
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs
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Molly Lefebure was secretary to Keith Simpson, the pathologist, from 1940 to 1945, and in this book recounts some of the cases... [more]
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Sex, Drugs and Meditation: A Memoir
Mary-Lou Stephens
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs
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Miraculously, Mary-Lou Stevens has just made it into her forties. With the aid of therapy and NA/AA she has overcome a tricky... [more]
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Unsuitable for Publication: Editing Queen Victoria
Yvonne M. Ward
Biography: historical, political & military; Diaries, letters & journals; History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; Ethical issues: censorship
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When Queen Victoria died in 1901, two literary gentlemen took on a monumental task: selecting and editing her vast correspondence.... [more]
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Free the Bears: How an Ordinary Perth Grandmother Became an Extraordinary...
Mary Hutton
Biography; Biography: general; True stories; Animals & society
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In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction... [more]
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Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
Helen Trinca
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Biography: literary; Autobiography: literary; Gender studies: women
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The remarkable, moving story of the troubled life of Madeleine St John, author of The Women in Black. [more]
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Welcome to Your New Life
Anna Goldsworthy
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs; Anthologies (non-poetry); Pregnancy, birth & baby care
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In Welcome to Your New Life, a new mother shares the dizzying wonder and crippling anxiety that come with creating a new life.... [more]
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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale
Autobiography: general; Diaries, letters & journals; History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history
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From the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher [more]
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Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an Unconventional Woman...
Anne Deveson
Biography; Popular philosophy
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In her lifetime Anne Deveson has seen massive resources deployed in waging war. Funds, strategies, materials and lives with... [more]
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Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Barnaby Martin
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment; Human rights
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The gripping story of post-Mao China and the harrowing fate of the artist and activist Ai Weiwei -- [more]
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Here and Now
J. M. Coetzee, Paul Auster
Biography; Diaries, letters & journals
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Offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection... [more]
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The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer
Alison Alexander
Biography; Biography: general; History; Indigenous peoples
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The story of Jane Franklin's remarkable life, including her extensive travels and her very public battle to save her husband,... [more]
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Kinsey and Me: Stories
Sue Grafton
Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Thriller & suspense; Short stories
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In 1982, Grafton introduced readers to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and... [more]
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The Vogue Factor
Kirstie Clements
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Fashion & society; Advice on careers & achieving success
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Many girls dream of being editor of Vogue. Here, Kirstie Clements, a girl from the wrong side of Sydney tells of her audacious... [more]
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Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker...
Charles M. Falco
Biography; True crime
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The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs.... [more]
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Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos & the Western Front...
Susanna de Vries
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Military history
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This is the story of eight women who had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renown. Nursing sister Hilda Samsing... [more]
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The Exotic Booze Club: True Adventures of Volcanoes, Cobras, and a...Beer...
Brian Armstrong
Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Travel writing
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This book gives you the true stories from behind the scenes of Brian Armstrong's most dramatic films, framed by the rise and... [more]
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris
Biography; Biography: general; Prose: non-fiction
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A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Jonathan Sperber
Biography; Biography: general; History of ideas; Marxism & Communism
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Jonathan Sperber s excellent biography succeeds splendidly in reshaping our image of the man and his thoughts. Ian Kershaw... [more]
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Gurrumul: His Life and Music
Robert Hillman
Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment
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From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia′s Geoffrey Gurrumul... [more]
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A Lasting Record
Stephen Downes
Music; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Biography: arts & entertainment; Biography: literary
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A Lasting Record tells the unique true story of two separate but interconnected lives: New Yorker William Kapell, America's... [more]
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Levels of Life
Julian Barnes
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: literary
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Tells about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing... [more]
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Kitchen Table Memoirs
Nick Richardson
Biography; Memoirs; Anthologies (non-poetry); Cookery, food & drink
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Whether it is oak, pine, Laminex, varnished, recycled or modernist glass - in the domestic geography of our daily lives, the... [more]
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Holy Hell
Patricia Feenan
Biography; True crime; Child abuse
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When Senior NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told the ABC's Lateline programme on November 8, 2012, that the... [more]
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