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By: Piers Dudgeon

ISBN: 9780007202782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A fascinating insight into the life of one of the country's bestselling and best-loved authors, marrying her work with her extraordinary life, and looking at her rise to fame and fortune against all the odds.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Kate Douglas

ISBN: 9781350236363
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Helene Chung

ISBN: 9780733322914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: ABC Books
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An evocative memoir of a young Chinese girl growing up in conservative Tasmania in the 1950s.


(Paperback)

By: Clara Kramer

ISBN: 9781741665215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Random House Australia
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Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, her family home was given to a Volksdeutsch family, the Becks. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic and a vocal anti-Semite.


(Paperback)

By: John Mortimer

ISBN: 9780140063837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1983
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.


(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

By: John Fraser

ISBN: 9781840025040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An autobiography, in which John Fraser takes us from the council estates of prewar Glasgow to the glamour of 1960s Hollywood and beyond. Funny, honest and observant about himself, his family and his friends, he presents such legendary figures as Rudolf Nureyev, Hedy Lamarr, Dirk Bogarde and Bette Davis in a startling light.


(Paperback)

By: Bryan Magee

ISBN: 9780712635608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Vintage
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Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area. It was London's busiest market for stolen goods, the centre of the pickpocket trade, home to a razor gang that terrorised racecourses all over southern England.


(Paperback)

By: Angela Clarke

ISBN: 9780753541197
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Confessions of a Fashionista is a book for anyone who's ever been an outsider, for anyone who's ever had a relationship end badly and thought they'd never find true love, and for anyone who thinks that cakes were made to be eaten, not sniffed.


(Paperback)

By: Gary L. Heyward

ISBN: 9781476794327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Isadora Tattlin

ISBN: 9780553824896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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The face of modern-day Cuba is in many respects still frozen in the 1950s, with its classic American cars, horse-drawn carriages and colonial Spanish architecture.


(Paperback)

By: Sarah Bryden-Brown

ISBN: 9780732285296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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This is a book that everyone who has a father can relate to. It will make you laugh and cry while reminding you that being a good parent has nothing to do with learning from a textbook and everything to do with love.


(Paperback)

By: David Suzuki

ISBN: 9781741147926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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New autobiography of distinguished scientist, environmentalist and bestselling author, David Suzuki


(Paperback)

By: Michael Gurr

ISBN: 9780522852820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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This memoir by a leading Australian playwright casts a shrewd eye over Australian culture and politics. Michael Gurr has written, directed and acted. He's also been a political activist. The diary meshes the personal with the political - from the Dismissal in 1975, through the rise of economic rationalism, net culture, and globalisation.


(Hardback)

By: Malachy McCourt

ISBN: 9781478917069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant MALACHY MCCOURT shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and often poignant - and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn.


(Paperback)

By: Derek Acorah

ISBN: 9780007233229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The UK's number one TV psychic is back as you've never seen him before. Derek shares stories of his scariest, most bloodcurdling encounters with the other side.


(Paperback)

By: van Raay. Carla

ISBN: 9780732285845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Carla van Raay's second memoir. She moves beyond her rocky past as God's Callgirl and attains full womanhood via au authentic and challenging relationship with her sexual equal. An exploration of emotional and spiritual growth.


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By: Diana Bagnall

ISBN: 9780732288334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Sabina Wolanski was just 12 years old when her home town in Poland was invaded by Nazis. In her diary she recorded what happened next. Leaving Europe after the war, Sabina forged a new life in Australia.


(Paperback)

By: Toni Maguire

ISBN: 9781785037665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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How do you stop your past from determining your future

Its what daddies do with their little girls, he explains, every little girl does it.

This is the heartbreaking true story of a little girl that just wanted to be loved.


(Paperback)

By: Max Hastings

ISBN: 9780007271726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings.


(Paperback)

By: Gerald Nissenbaum

ISBN: 9780091933371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Shows how rich and desperate can be a very explosive combination.


(Paperback)

By: Penn Clarke

ISBN: 9781098310530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: James Martin

ISBN: 9780007294688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Whether skateboarding across the kitchen as a child,
or taking part in the world's most prestigious vintage road race, TV chef James Martin has never been one
to sit still. In this entertaining narrative he reveals
how his two passions cooking and cars have fuelled his hopes, dreams and successes and made him the household name he is today.


(Paperback)

By: Veronica Cecil

ISBN: 9781849016414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The powerful and moving account of one woman's flight from Africa's heart of darkness


(Paperback)

By: Naguib Mahfouz

ISBN: 9780385485562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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A collection of autobiographical reflections from the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature. The author considers the perplexities of existence, including his preoccupations with old age and death. A number of passages are devoted to the aphoristic sayings of Sufi literature.

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