WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAN?Imagine feeling in your gut that your whole existence is a lie.  Imagine knowing, for decades, that t
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'A fascinating portrait . . . Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd . . . Warburg is an emblem
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Title: Crime & Criminals of Victorian EnglandAuthor: Adrian GrayDark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-lace
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Title: Nancy WakeAuthor: Russell BraddonNancy Wake is one of the true heroines of the Second World War. Born in New Zealand, she was living
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Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new
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Title: Royal Weddings Through TimeAuthor: Janette McCutcheonA unique pictorial souvenir of the Royal Wedding Perfectly timed to appear in ti
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'A great read.' – THE BOSTON EXAMINERLinda Greenlaw's lobster traps weren't paying off and the bills were piling up when an old fr
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Carla Coulson had it all, or so everyone told her – a glamorous inner-city apartment, a successful business and a designer wardrob
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New Zealand-based cinematographer Geoff Mackley has carved out an international reputation as a film maker and photographer of natural disas
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Until he was thirty-one, Jack Iverson lived an unexceptional life. An estate agent's son, he went to boarding school, became a jackaroo, fou
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Country Driving is Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade - from the fortified towns along the Great Wall
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Jane's Fame is a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising neglect—as well as a his
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For three months in the spring of 1994, the African nation of Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world h
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They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed.  The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in memories of t
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Take a ride on the wild sideGeoff Law first rafted the dangerously beautiful Franklin River on a whim. He was inexperienced and in a leaky r
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In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowermen
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Kate Holden is used to being summed up at a glance: arts graduate, history buff, middle-class daughter, dreamer, innocent. But she is a youn
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The seeds of Kingia and Nuytsia you shall have. This is their precise time of ripening and the last named grows here in great abundance, and
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Part travel writing, part social history and part personal reflection, Messing About In Earnest is a real gem. Using Governor Stirling's his
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Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live
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In this impressive new collection, Ryle Winn introduces eight real-life heroes, each with an extraordinary tale to tell.  We meet a
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Voted as a 'best book' of 2005 in the Bulletin, The Australian and ABR, this is a gritty memoir by an outstanding journalist, Hoi Polloi des
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Some lives, like that of Banjo Clarke, are so special thy touch countless others without trying. A descendant of Truganini, Banjo was born i
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Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invi
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable
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Mozart's music still speaks to us across the centuries, yet our views of the composer is often clouded by myth. Here David Cairns distils a
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Olga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China tra
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The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Th
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'Captures the thrills of the early years and the madness of fame'  Big Issue Stephen Davis – author of the legendary Hamm
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Shortlisted, Dobbie Literary Award for a first published book Shortlisted, Australian Newcomer of the Year, Australian Book Industry AwardsI
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The Fall are one of the world's most iconic groups, led for the last thirty years by the inimitable and enigmatic Mark E. Smith. They have r
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The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use w
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On 22 May 1940, Antoine de Saint-Exupery set off on a reconnaissance operation from Orly over Nazi-occupied France to Arras. It was a pointl
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Zoe Caldwell is quite simply one of the great stage actors of our time. She has worked with Paul Robeson, Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans, Joh
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The paperback edition of the best-selling biography of the late Sir Peter Blake, the celebrated yachtsman and adventurer. Sir Peter Blake: A
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Quantum electrodynamics – or QED, for short – is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact
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Seeking to capture the spirit of his literary heroes, Patrick O'Neil quits his desk job, breaks up with his girlfriend and throws himself at
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Taken from his celebrated Caltech lectures, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is more challenging in its content than the previous volume Six Easy Piec
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Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller. Was it the murder victim's money
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The life of the Prophet Muhammad, to whom the Angel Gabriel revealed the verses of the Quran, has provided inspiration to Muslims for hundre
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Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling... As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur
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Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveller-reporter of our time. Travels with Herodotus depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young
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MICHAEL McINTYRE is Britain's biggest comedy star. He has released two record-breaking DVDs, Live and Laughing and Hello Wembley; hosts his
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'Magnificent, a wonderful comedy . . . Sanderson has a novelist's gift for capturing eternal situations' FINANCIAL TIMESEnglish Rose Catheri
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It is almost thirty years since Prince Rogers Nelson released his first album. In that time he has been a superstar; a recluse; an inspirati
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Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribes of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their
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Whose Hand is This? is a deeply moving account of one woman's survival of and partial recovery from stroke. What makes this book so remarkab
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On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was qu
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