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The author of Rule Number 5: No Sex on the Bus is on the road again, only this time he has Harry, his 73 year old, meat-and-three-veg loving dad in tow. On a two month odyssey they geographically retrace Harry's life, and in the process Brian Thacker finally gets to really know his father and maybe even get him to eat some of that foreign muck'.

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A side-splitting examination of the 100 worst songs ever written - from Achy Breaky Heart to You Light Up My Life, as well as many that will have you sending rude emails to the publisher like Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da (a song that proves that psychedelic drugs aren't good for you) and Paul Simon's unbearably pretentious Sounds of Silence.

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The inspiring life story of cancer survivor and renowned mind-body pioneer, Ian Gawler.

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From the Antarctic to Victorian London, the Yorkshire moors to colonial tropical Cairns, to Imperial Japan and to the gritty streets of modern-day Kings Cross, Ice is a novel of hauntings, love, longing, memory and loss, told with audacity and breathtaking imaginative power from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.

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Ida Leeson was no ordinary librarian. At a time when only men rose to such positions in the Australian library world, she won an epic struggle to become Mitchell Librarian - a position previously held only by men.

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Australia is ready for a new national vision, a roadmap for its future. Four exciting, new and talented young Australians articulate such a vision offering fresh ideas and bold thinking about the country's future political, economic and social policy.

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Three toilets, a deceased poodle and some sadly depreciated real-estate . . . a rollicking, laugh-out-loud memoir of how a practical joke went too far from one of Australia's brightest young comedians.

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Thrilling examination of some of the actions the SAS has been involved in up to and including its service in East Timor.

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Intriguing, gripping and believable, Tony Jones has used worldwide political history to create a second sensational thriller.

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This is Gary McKay's story of how he was conscripted into the Australian army and his experiences in the Vietnam War. It is an action-packed, very readable account of an Australian soldier's war experience in Vietnam, developing strongly the Australian soldiers' great sense of mateship.

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A novel about family and friends, mothers and daughters, poets, painters and passion, all inspired by the lives and song of birds.

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Poignant and moving memoir of Elizabeth Ward, known to one and all as Biff, who grew up in the 1950s in a household that tiptoed around her mother's demons and her father's fame.

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In Our Time examines Australian loyalties to socialist agitators at the end of the nineteenth century and challenges the accepted versions of the social and political ferment which gave rise to the labour movement and its parliamentary expression, the Labor parties.

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He was the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade. This is the story of the notorious bushranger, Captain Moonlite.

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Contains five in-depth stories of seven remarkable men that allow us to explore the concept of "hero". They include the stories of cartoonist Michael Leunig, three volunteer firefighters from Ash Wednesday and NSW fires, a campaigner for native title, Imam of Lakemba Mosque, and Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture.

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Chris and Joe take to the road, touring the highways and byways of Australia on a quest to discover what became of the Holden Piazza - possibly the dodgiest car ever to be imported into Australia. A boys' own adventure of cars, cricket commentary, improbable adventures and even more improbable characters.

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The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.

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Featuring many of the legends of the Australian outback, this is the extraordinary true story of how one ordinary woman grew up to champion Australia's outback heritage.

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The extraordinary story of Australia's first legal injecting clinic provides important insights into the harrowing world of the addict and the outstanding efforts of a dedicated group of professionals.

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An adrenalin-pumping, heart-stopping account of one man's dream to become the first person to navigate the full length of the mighty Mekong from its source in Tibet to the South China Sea.

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A search for belonging in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs turns into a riotous satire of identity politics in this wildly irreverent coming-of-age story.

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Kate Grenville meets Cormac McCarthy in a hugely enjoyable rollicking, literary western set in the most isolated and feared penal colony of the British Empire. A novel full of breathtaking action, cut-throat villains and corrupt and deadly officials, you'll never think of Tasmanian history in the same way again.

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Following on from his best selling Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained, an eye-opening account of some of the successful deals and spectacular failures in the career of one of Australia's best known private equity investors.

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A blistering critique of the largely hidden role played by the public relations industry in Australia, Inside Spin reveals how corporate and government spin doctors invisibly influence just about every news story we read, see and hear. Winner of the 2005 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues.