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Adrian Hyland
Biography: general; Memoirs; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Social impact of disasters; Natural disasters
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On 7 February 2009 Sergeant Roger Wood found himself at the epicentre of the worst bushfire in Australia's history. Black... [more]
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Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Travilla
Andrew Hansford
Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Fashion & textiles: design; Memoirs
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William Travilla is one of the best costume designers of all time and Marilyn Monroe his most famous client. Dressing Marilyn:... [more]
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I've Been There (and Back Again): Slim Dusty & Joy Mckean's Lifetime of...
Joy McKean
Country & Western music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs
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A bestselling favourite filled with the songs and stories of Slim Dusty and his wife and fellow singer and songwriter, Joy... [more]
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Humiliation
Wayne Koestenbaum
Memoirs; Society & Social Sciences; Popular culture; Psychology: emotions
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With an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary, noted poet and critic Koestenbaum takes us through... [more]
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Burnished: Burnside Life Stories
Kate Shayler
Memoirs; History; Child welfare
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A collection of life accounts from residents of Burnside Children's Homes, Sydney. [more]
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Hoi Polloi
Craig Sherborne
Biography; Memoirs
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Recounts a childhood spent on racetracks and in bars, as the author's parents struggle to climb the social ladder in New Zealand.... [more]
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Piano Lessons
Anna Goldsworthy
Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Memoirs
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In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons... [more]
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The Last Pearling Lugger
Mark Dodd
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs
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Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia.... [more]
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The Grey Man: My Undercover War Against the Child Sex Trade in Asia
John Curtis
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs; Child abuse; Sexual abuse & harassment
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In northern Thailand a 12-year-old girl is sold to a middle-aged western man for sex. It's a transaction as ordinary as it... [more]
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Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom
Alex McBride
Biography; Memoirs; Criminal law & procedure
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Takes us behind the scenes of Britain's criminal justice system. In this title, the author introduces us to its characters... [more]
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The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe
Peter Godwin
Memoirs; History; African history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Political control & freedoms
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A caustic and highly emotional account of Zimbabwe under the tyranny of Mugabe's last days [more]
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The Uncharted Path
Lee Myung-Bak
Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Memoirs; History; Political leaders & leadership
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The inspiring and engrossing memoir of South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak. The Uncharted Path is the story of a man... [more]
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Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy...
Caroline Kennedy, Michael R. Beschloss
Biography; Memoirs; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Political leaders & leadership
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Still deeply grieving the loss of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy sat down with historian... [more]
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Stieg and Me: Memories of a Life with Stieg Larsson
Eva Gabrielsson
Biography; Memoirs; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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There is only one person who can tell the real Steig Larsson story, and that is his lifelong companion Eva Gabrielsson. This... [more]
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Prodigal Father Pagan Son: Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World of the...
Anthony LT Menginie, Kerrie Droban
Biography; Memoirs; True crime; Organised crime
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'To the reader: I am 31 years old. I was born the son of the Philadelphia Pagans' most notorious leader. I've been around... [more]
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This Party's Got to Stop
Rupert Thomson
Biography; Memoirs
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Wonderfully dark, relentlessly slippery ... I read this entire memoir with my breath held Julie Myerson, The Observer [more]
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The Enemy That Starves the Innocent: Living with Anorexia
Natalie Sissanes
Memoirs; Medicine; Eating disorders & therapy; Coping with eating disorders
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The true story of living with anorexia and how to recover. Telling the story from her own perspective with amazing honesty,... [more]
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Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War...
Niromi de Soyza
Biography; Memoirs; Terrorism, armed struggle; Revolutionary groups & movements; Armed conflict
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How was it that a well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil... [more]
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A Singer's Notebook
Ian Bostridge
Music; Memoirs
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Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers, celebrated both for the quality of his voice and for the exceptional intelligence... [more]
$35.00 $31.50
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West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss
Jim Perrin
Memoirs; Coping with death & bereavement; Travel & holiday; Travel writing
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Part memoir, part travelogue, legendary writer Jim Perrin charts a journey of loss, love and grief in the face of the deaths... [more]
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An Outback Life
Mary Groves
Biography; Autobiography: general; Memoirs; The countryside, country life
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All I could think of as my heart thumped in my chest and the rumble of 900 stampeding buffalo rocked my vehicle was, 'Strewth!... [more]
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Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage
Maya Ward
Memoirs; Local history; Travel & holiday; Expeditions
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This is the joyful yet heartbreaking true story of four friends who walk a 21-day pilgrimage from the sea to the source of... [more]
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Divided City: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis
Kai Bird
Biography; Memoirs; Middle Eastern history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird, a vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli... [more]
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The Killer within: In the Company of Monsters
Philip Carlo
Biography; Memoirs; True crime; Crime & criminology; Coping with illness
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Philip Carlo's investigative achievements were remarkable, but what wasn't known to his readers was that, while working on... [more]
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Role Models
John Waters
Film, TV & Radio; Memoirs
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Here, from the incomparable and irreverent filmmaker John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will... [more]
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