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(Hardback)

By: John Gordon

ISBN: 9781775591306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
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This anthology is a selection of material describing the experiences of the soldiers of 2 New Zealand Division in World War 2, mostly written from within its ranks. The extracts are drawn from memoirs, fiction, verse, news reports and magazine articles, and record the experiences of over 80 insiders, from the declaration of war to the return home.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Alasdair Gray

ISBN: 9781847671400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray.


(Paperback, Omnibus Edition)

By: Katharine Stewart

ISBN: 9781780275079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This omnibus gathers A Croft in the Hills together with some of Katharines later books.


(Hardback)

By: Peter Doherty

ISBN: 9781408715482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The long-awaited, candid memoir from Peter Doherty, whose talent as a musician has more often been eclipsed by a Herculean appetite for self-destruction: drugs, prison, prostitution, court, murder, death, robbery, car crashes and hospital emergencies.


(Hardback)

By: Arshay Cooper

ISBN: 9781250754769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The inspiring, and moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.


(Paperback)

By: Chrysta Bilton

ISBN: 9781800961111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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An entertaining, unconventional family memoir from the daughter of one of the most prolific early sperm donors AKA 'Donor 150'.


(Hardback)

By: Kylie Johnson

ISBN: 9781741965629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Murdoch Books
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This new volume of Kylie Johnson's exquisite poems and illustrations is full of wistful romance and simple humanity. This is a beautifully crafted and designed book, which is both inspiring and uplifting.


(Paperback)

By: Carol Ann Lee

ISBN: 9781789465631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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The chilling tale of The Teacup Poisoner, Graham Young.


(Hardback)

By: Katie Peterson

ISBN: 9780374232795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet


(Paperback)

By: David Wilson

ISBN: 9780751582154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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David Wilson uncovers the truth behind Peter Farquhar's murder, and the psychopath who almost got away with it.


(Paperback)

By: Tanya Thaweeskulchai

ISBN: 9780648056843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Cordite Publishing Inc.
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(Hardback)

By: Ahmed Kathrada

ISBN: 9780733623066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Hodder Headline Australia
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In the Robben Island prison register, Nelson Mandela was famously recorded as prisoner number 466/64. Number 468/64 was Ahmed Kathrada. Kathrada spent 26 years in jail for his political beliefs. During his incarceration he secretly jotted down quotations which he came across and liked. On Robben Island these quotations were like familiar friends.


(Hardback)

By: Mike Wood

ISBN: 9781472144591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Lance Corporal Neville 'Timber' Wood was among the last British soldiers to be evacuated from Dunkirk, he served in North Africa and Sicily, took part in the D-Day landings and witnessed the horror of Bergen-Belsen. This is his extraordinary story.


(Hardback)

By: Linda Groom

ISBN: 9780642277077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: National Library of Australia
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By: Mark O'Connell

ISBN: 9781783789573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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What does it mean to write about a killer From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notoriousdouble-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himselfentangled in this strange, true story.


(Hardback)

By: Fred Pearce

ISBN: 9781783786916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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A fascinating scientific journey through the world's forests - revealing what they do for us, what we're doing to them, and how we can help nature repair the damage.


(Hardback)

By: Hugh Purcell

ISBN: 9781849548618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Christiane Ritter

ISBN: 9781782275640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerisingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.


(Hardback)

By: Astrid Lindgren

ISBN: 9781782272311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A unique and personal record of the Second World War


(Paperback)

By: Astrid Lindgren

ISBN: 9781782273073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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One of the twentieth century's greatest children's writers - and the creator of Pippi Longstocking - reveals her very personal experience of the Second World War


(Paperback)

By: Sarah Kaminsky

ISBN: 9780997003475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2016
Publisher: DoppelHouse Press
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The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.


(Hardback)

By: Sarah Kaminsky

ISBN: 9780997003406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: DoppelHouse Press
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The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.


(Paperback)

By: Abbas Nazari

ISBN: 9781988547640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere.


(Hardback)

By: Frank Bidart

ISBN: 9780374603519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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"An urgent new collection from Frank Bidart, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget"--

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