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Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to Prince William, third son of George III. Unmarried, the pair lived in a villa on the Thames and had ten children together until William, under pressure from royal advisers, abandoned her.

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Alice Keppel was a manipulative woman, whose relationship with Edward VII placed her at the centre of high society. Her daughter, Violet, was fascinated with her mother's power. Yet when she fell in love with Vita Sackville-West, she threatened to break all the moral rules of her mothers world.

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Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.

Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer.

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Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service.

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The irrepressibly entertaining Jacki Weaver writes generously and wittily on her life, her loves and her passions.

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"Only God, who appointed me, will remove me - not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!" - Robert Mugabe

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At the pinnacle of his boxing career during the 1960s and early 1970s, Muhammad Ali seemed to be a cultural symbol of the times. This book describes Ali's life from his birth, with an emphasis on his career through 1975. It covers such topics as his boxing matches, his religious conversion to Islam, and his efforts to promote world peace.

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But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother and sister by scalding them with boiling water

This is a harrowing true story of how one little girl endured the most tragic of childhoods.

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The voice of motor racing and the man responsible for introducing millions of viewers to the previously inaccessible world of Formula 1 -- tells the story of his incident-packed life.

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"The present work is a selection from Robert Musil, Tagebucher, edited by Adolf Frise (Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1976)"--Translator's note.

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The definitive autobiography from the nation's best-loved broadcaster.

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The real story is far more gripping than the fictional one.

Born and brought up in New York City, Nancy is a true woman of the world. Fashion is fun and life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Nancy's book tells the whole story of her life so far.

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My Better Half and Me weaves together Rosemary's diaries with Joss's commentary to tell of an extraordinary love story that lasted over fifty years.

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An intensely personal exploration and celebration of the life and work of one of Australia's premier poets, Judith Wright, through the landscape and country she loved so much.

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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. This volume of an autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw, remembered with charm and poignancy and without bitterness.

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Now available in paperback is the revelatory firsthand account by the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy. 8-page photo insert.

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A uniquely personal and timely portrait of a region under the international spotlight, this book offers a rare insight into the secret daily life of women in Saudi Arabia through the eyes of an Australian woman who makes a new life there with her husband.