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An account of the grim, desperate but often inspiring years, 1939-41. The author vividly captures the spirit of determination as she describes her own personal experiences set against the dramatic events of the early war years, events like the Battle of Britain and the London Blitz.

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In 1941, as the Second World War raged on, 20-year-old Maureen Bolster began writing to her boyfriend Eric Wells.

Filled with warmth and humour, this charming collection of Maureen's letters describes her life working for the war effort back home.

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Irish singing star Daniel O'Donnell's mother, Julia, grew up on a remote island off the northwest coast of Ireland, going barefoot and doing hard labour as as child during the poverty-stricken 1920s.

The hard work continued through her teenage years as she picked potatoes in the fields and travelled to Scotland to gut fish in the ports.

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An illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power and beauty.

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In Carlo Gebler's early childhood, his relationship with his father, Ernest, was a disaster. Years later, on hearing his estranged father was now senile, Gebler made the long difficult journey to southern Ireland and through his past, through diaries that confirmed Ernest's hatred for his sons.

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John Peard is a rugby league legend. But John's memoir is more than football yarns. In 2002, at only 57 he suffered a massive stroke Doctors did not expect him to live and his family prepared for the worst. Fine, thanks mate is an unforgettable story of survival.

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Whether he was performing the circus as a reluctant child juggler, living in a punk rock commune or staying with a coke-addled cop in Mexico on a school exchange program, Oran Canfield never had a 'normal' childhood. This memoir of Oran shows that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to start living life fully, and for yourself.

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The story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge.

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The real life story of the drug dealer turned good guy behind the Hip Hop film classic Paid in Full.

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Ralph White tells the remarkable story of how as a young banker in Saigon during the final weeks before the city fell to the North Vietnamese, he saved the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families, via a secret American-run network he discovered -- Argo meets The Fall of Saigon.

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'He thought I was different from all the other girls and really shouldn't be there. I'd never held so much money in my life.'

Nave, fresh faced and wearing a floral dress, it seemed unlikely that Ellouise Moore would be selected from amongst the hundreds of glamorous girls when she auditioned at a well-known West End strip club.

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Born in the Blue Mountains more than seventy years ago, Goldie was a troubled, reckless boy. When he was fifteen he left home and school and took off for the bush with his mate Bluey. It was just after World War II and there was massive unemployment, and he had to take whatever job was going.

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Jacinta Tynan appears to have it all - she's 32, gorgeous and has a fantastic job as a newsreader for the ABC's satellite service. There's just one thing missing - 'Pirate Pete'. So now she is 'auditioning husbands'.

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Tells the story of the author's experiences as a young officer in the First World War. This title describes life in the trenches and how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked.

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During the school holidays, he returned to London and the air raids, the doodlebugs and V2 rockets.

With the war over, Bryan's school sent him to a Lyce in Versailles, and he explored the Paris of those post-war years.

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Ilyasah Shabazz was only two years old when her father, Malcolm X, was assassinated in 1964. Now Ilyasah presents her memoir about carrying on the legacy of a renowned father and indomitable mother, forged by the memory of her parents' love, the meaning of their cause, and the power of their faith.

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'I felt like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and all the other fairy-tale princesses, and Pat was my Prince Charming.'

Sam Skye Lee had often thought about getting married, but never imagined that her dress would be bright pink with flashing lights and weigh a staggering 20-stone.