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The heart-rending story of a childTamparefugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. Updated edition.

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(Paperback)

In his book of poems, Afterglow, Dan Phillips combines energy, wit, enthusiasm, magnanimity, and an eye for detail, with flashes of insight followed by an afterglow of wonder that will make you sit up and take notice of your own life!

(Paperback, Main)

An innovative examination of love and loss from 'a kick-ass counter-cultural icon' (New Yorker).

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(Paperback, Main)

Written in the months after Rachel Cusk's divorce, Aftermath is a masterly work charting the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.

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A very personal map of New Zealand - from Waiheke Island to Dunedin via the Waihi Beach Dump and Wellington's storm sewers - is laid out in this collection of poems whose emotional territory is as vast as it is geographical.

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Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.

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The women who battled prejudice and indifference to become doctors

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The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australias finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.

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Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death; and about people who have changed her life.

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An informed, engaging and accessible introduction to the Christie phenomenon, examining all her novels and short stories. This edition has been updated to include new material on all recent film, TV and literary adaptations....

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A definitive biography of the author, now fully updated with a new introduction to mark 100 years of Agatha Christie publishing

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A ground-breaking biography of Agatha Christie from acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley

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Agatha Christies Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple.

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From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the worlds favourite fictional detective.

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'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving.' JOHN LE CARR

(Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) is and perhaps always will be Werner Herzog's most important film. Aguirre is not a history film in the narrow sense, but it does engage a specific episode in the conquest of the New World, and it explores that history in terms of vision.

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Firsthand accounts of the life, practice, and teachings of pioneering Aikido master Robert Nadeau, direct disciple of Aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba

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The first ever biography of Silicon Valley's legendary investor and SoftBank's founder, chairman and CEO.

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Although they didn't know it then, when the Rolling Stones embarked on their farewell tour of England in March, 1971, having announced they were about to go into tax exile in the south of France, it was the end of an era. For the Stones, nothing would ever be the same again.

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Ainsley de Jong Could Danceis a memoir about the life and death of Ainsley de Jong - a girl who was taken far too soon, and who had an enormous impact on all those who she met.