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Sub-Categories of Biography
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris
Biography; Biography: general; Prose: non-fiction
Hardback
A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. [more]
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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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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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Life without the Boring Bits
Colleen McCullough
Biography; Memoirs
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World famous writer Colleen McCullough has always resisted the idea of producing an autobiography, pleading as her excuse... [more]
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Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
Elizabeth Norton
Biography: historical, political & military; Biography: royalty; History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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Beautiful, young, exuberant, the amazing life of Elizabeth Blount, Henry VIII's mistress and mother to his first son who came... [more]
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The Kelly Gang Unmasked
Ian MacFarlane
Biography: historical, political & military; History; Australasian & Pacific history; Social & cultural history
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This controversial book re-examines the story of the Kelly Gang in fascinating detail and with many new insights. The mythology... [more]
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Bedtime Stories: Tales from My 21 Years at RN's Late Night Live
Phillip Adams
Radio; Biography; Memoirs
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For 21 years, Phillip Adams has hosted Late Night Live, one of Radio National's flagship programs, expertly batting questions... [more]
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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
Paula Byrne
Biography; Biography: literary; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula... [more]
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The Man Who Invented Vegemite
Jamie Callister
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: science, technology & engineering; Food manufacturing & related industries
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Vegemite is perhaps Australia's most enduring cultural icon. But how did this pungent, salty black paste come to be created?... [more]
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Hope Street, Jerusalem: A Memoir
Irris Makler
Biography; Memoirs; Press & journalism; Travel writing; Miscellaneous items
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'I had no idea how demanding this consuming, cruel, dangerous and fascinating place would be. I would fall in love here,... [more]
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Artemis Cooper
Biography; Biography: general; Classic travel writing
Hardback
The authorized biography [more]
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QF32: The Captain's Extraordinary Account of How One of the World's Worst...
Richard de Crespigny
Biography: general; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Aerospace & aviation technology
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In 2010, what began as a routine long-haul flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife-edge of becoming one of the... [more]
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Titans of History
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Biography: historical, political & military; History; General & world history; History: specific events & topics
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Collection of the lives of the good, the bad and the ugly of history by award-wininng historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. [more]
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Hazel: My Mother's Story
Sue Pieters-Hawke
Biography; Biography: general
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Hazel Hawke is one of Australia's best-loved and most respected women. As the wife of a prime minister she brought a down-to-earth... [more]
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Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
Eve LaPlante
Biography; Autobiography: general; Autobiography: literary; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Gender studies: women
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Based on newly uncovered family papers, this groundbreaking and intensely moving portrait of Louisa May Alcott's relationship... [more]
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A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the...
Susannah Fullerton
Biography: literary; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Cultural studies
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Drawing on contemporary accounts and illustrations, Austen's novels and correspondence, we are taken through all the stages... [more]
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Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
Adrian Fort
Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; Politics & government
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Far from a virago who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, Nancy Astor was already near the centre of the ruling... [more]
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Swampy: Tall Tales and True from Boyhood and Beyond
Bill Marsh
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general
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For me, Beckom was one vast playground. From the plover-infested homestead to its dam crawling with yabbies; along the meandering... [more]
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Mao: The Real Story
Alexander Pantsov, Steven Levine
Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; Autobiography: historical, political & military; History; Asian history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Political leaders & leadership
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The major new biography of Mao draws on never before seen documents to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power... [more]
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The Recluse
Evelyn Juers
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Evelyn Juers's study of reclusion focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens' character... [more]
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Wild and Woolley: A Publishing Memoir
Michael Wilding
Biography; Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Media studies; Publishing industry
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Novelist and critic Michael Wilding's rollicking account of the heady bohemian days in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth,... [more]
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Hazel: My Mother's Story
Sue Pieters-Hawke
Biography; Biography: general
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Hazel Hawke is one of Australia's best-loved and most respected women. As the wife of a prime minister she brought a down-to-earth... [more]
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Steady Steady: The Life and Music of Seaman Dan
Karl Neuenfeldt, Seaman Dan
Music; Jazz; Blues; Biography: arts & entertainment
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Born on Thursday Island in 1929, Seaman Dan didnt release his debut album, Follow the Sun, until his 70th birthday. In the... [more]
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund De Waal
Carvings: artworks; Biography; Biography: general
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Presents photographs of the celebrated netsuke collection - 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than... [more]
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