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By: Geraldine Brooks
ISBN: 9781863256131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
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An award-winning memoir from a bestselling Australian author, Geraldine was born in the late 1950s and longed to discover the vivid places where she believed history and culture were made. Twenty years later Brooks was a foreign correspondent. This is an intimate, moving and often humourous memoir of growing up in Australia in the 1960s.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Ayres
ISBN: 9780522862072
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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By: Remigiusz Ryzinksi
ISBN: 9781948830362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2021
Publisher: Open Letter
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By: John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9781473632981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The colourful story of the four very different men who created our modern world: Henry VIII, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent: popular history at its best from John Julius Norwich
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By: Lucy Adlington
ISBN: 9781761153419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Ultimo Press
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By: Matthew Parris
ISBN: 9781781257241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories.
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By: Carlespie McKinney
ISBN: 9781667856933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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Fractured is an autobiography which begins with the ten-year savage domination by his mother's tormentor. This work details his winning an academic scholarship, joining a cult, his marriage and subsequent escape from the cult and divorce. The book ends with his triumph over his being shattered and reassembled into a new person.
(Hardback)
By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9781644283790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
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By: Farrukh Dhondy
ISBN: 9781804295243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist
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By: Warren Brown
ISBN: 9780733628672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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This is the colourful story of FRANCIS BIRTLES, a fascinating individual who led a life of incredible adventure and exploration in Australia and throughout the world.
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By: Michael F. Cusato
ISBN: 9781789147834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An original and historically informed account of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity.
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By: Catharine Lumby
ISBN: 9781742372242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters.
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By: Matthew Lamb
ISBN: 9780143786122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Random House Australia
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By: Simon Cooper
ISBN: 9780008307073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep winning until every challenger of your generation is put to the sword. Of the twelve horses lined up on Newmarket Heath that 2011 day, one would do just that. And more. To become the greatest racehorse that has ever lived.
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By: Robert Dallek
ISBN: 9780141986593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James S Williams
ISBN: 9781789148312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Charts the key turning points in the short, extraordinary life of Frantz Fanon.
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By: Sean O'Hagan
ISBN: 9781787392588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
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Compiled by Queen's Richard Gray, it is full of rarely seen photographs, contributed by the likes of Brian May and the Bulsara family.
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By: David W. Blight
ISBN: 9781416590323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. era.
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By: Angela Merkel
ISBN: 9781035020751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The much-anticipated political memoirs of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
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By: Brad Guy
ISBN: 9780645615074
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Longueville Media
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By: Jeff Apter
ISBN: 9781760875107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Pop star, mentor and icon, George Young was one of the most important figures in Australian pop music history. Jeff Apter reveals the little-known facts that helped create a music empire.
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By: David Cohen
ISBN: 9780995123021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Massey University Press
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A FORMER NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER CANDIDLY REVIEWS HIS LIFE AND THE STATE OF THE NATION
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By: Ritchie Robertson
ISBN: 9781789146066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of crucial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
(Hardback)
By: Minoo Dinshaw
ISBN: 9780241312827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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