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By: Hlne Delalex
ISBN: 9782080202109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2015
Publisher: Editions Flammarion
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Marie Antoinette was a mirror of her time. Never has a queen been so passionately admired and adulated, then hunted, vilified, and defamed. The author demystifies the legend, unveiling the woman behind the queen, and the wife and mother behind the sovereign.
(Paperback)
By: Larry Writer
ISBN: 9780733637353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history.
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By: Vincent Cronin
ISBN: 9781846555572
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Yet this woman, who at the age of 33, after 17 years of unhappy marriage, placed her deposed and murdered husband's crown on her own head, had begun life as an insignificant German princess.
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By: D. R. Dymock
ISBN: 9780733629839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The fascinating story of Bert Hinkler - the pilot the world forgot.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Asher
ISBN: 9780140258547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks This work set out to solve this riddle and discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his weaknesses as to his strengths.
(Hardback)
By: Ignacio Ramonet
ISBN: 9781784783839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Verso Books
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Hugo Chavez's extraordinary story-in his own words
(Paperback)
By: John K. Alexander
ISBN: 9780742570344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Alexandra Fanny Brodsky
ISBN: 9781860641503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first volume of Alexandra Fanny Brodsky's wartime memoirs.
(Hardback)
By: Tim Bowden
ISBN: 9780733629624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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Inside Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway.
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By: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 9781848855557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The years of Elizabeth's childhood were troubled - fraught with danger and beset with the political and religious plots of those around her. At the age of two her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded by her father, Henry VIII; Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and banished from the royal court. This title presents an account of Elizabeth's life.
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By: Timothy Mowl
ISBN: 9781845951788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington from an artistic apprenticeship in Rome where he had painted for a cardinal and won prizes from a pope.
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By: Austin Channing Brown
ISBN: 9780349014869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up as a Black woman in America.
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By: Damien Lewis
ISBN: 9781529429442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The new bestseller from Damien Lewis, the Regiment's de facto historian.
(Hardback)
By: Michael D'Antonio
ISBN: 9781250081391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, this book offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Pat Barr
ISBN: 9780571277438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.
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By: Susan Ronald
ISBN: 9781250311351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris.
(Hardback)
By: Mike Wood
ISBN: 9781472144591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Lance Corporal Neville 'Timber' Wood was among the last British soldiers to be evacuated from Dunkirk, he served in North Africa and Sicily, took part in the D-Day landings and witnessed the horror of Bergen-Belsen. This is his extraordinary story.
(Hardback)
By: Linda Groom
ISBN: 9780642277077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: National Library of Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Hugh Purcell
ISBN: 9781849548618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Alan Palmer
ISBN: 9780571259625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Qvortrup
ISBN: 9780715653999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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The definitive biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world - updated to include her final months in office
(Hardback)
By: Lisa Hilton
ISBN: 9780316858786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A biography of Louis XIV's principal mistress - Athenais de Montespan (1640 - 1707).
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Alderson
ISBN: 9781845295103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A human drama that sheds light on the courage, dedication and humour of those trying to rebuild Iraq. This work presents an account of how one man found himself in the middle of one of the most crucial episodes in modern history.
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By: Johnson Beharry
ISBN: 9780316733229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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* The remarkable life story of Johnson Beharry, from Grenadian poverty to being awarded the Victoria Cross and becoming a national hero.
