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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
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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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Life without the Boring Bits
Colleen McCullough
Biography; Autobiography: literary
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World famous writer Colleen McCullough has always resisted the idea of producing an autobiography, pleading as her excuse... [more]
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple-personality...
Debbie Nathan
Biography: general; Popular culture; Hoaxes & deceptions; Psychology; Psychiatry; Coping with anxiety & phobias
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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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]
Charles Dickens: A Life
Claire Tomalin
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: literary; Literature: history & criticism
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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
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* 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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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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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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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]
The Life of Charles Dickens: The Illustrated Edition
John Forster
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: literary
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Illuminates extracts from Dickens' own work and from criticism, biography and fiction. This title is illustrated with materials... [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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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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