(Hardback)
By: Kathryn Sutherland
ISBN: 9781851246267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A fascinating insight into the life of one of our best-loved authors through the biographies of objects that crossed her path in life and afterward.
(Paperback)
By: Brenda Niall
ISBN: 9781923058019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Text Publishing
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One of Australias foremost biographers examines the life of Joan Lindsay, the author of one of Australias most enduring novels Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Paperback)
By: Ron Padgett
ISBN: 9781566891592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Coffee House Press
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Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
(Paperback)
By: C.-Dimitris Gounelas
ISBN: 9781776920679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Israel Zamir
ISBN: 9781628725216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9781529118698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780143785972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Barbara Else
ISBN: 9780143777618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Paperback)
By: Grantlee Kieza
ISBN: 9780733340536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)
By: Bernadette Brennan
ISBN: 9781760879785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years.
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By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9781844086115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A collection of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers, Maya Angelou.
(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781784874001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Laura Thompson
ISBN: 9781789542660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalised interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controversial lifestyles.
(Paperback)
By: Emmanuel Carrre
ISBN: 9781846148217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. This book tells the story about this charecter.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Harkness
ISBN: 9781035008933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.
(Paperback)
By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780241968772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.
(Paperback)
By: Helen Trinca
ISBN: 9781760645755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Laura Beatty
ISBN: 9781838954383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Steven Powell
ISBN: 9781501367311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The first biography of James Ellroy, telling the ... story of his lifelong obsessions with crime, sex, and America's secret history"--
(Paperback)
By: Christina Jarvis
ISBN: 9781644213919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin J. Hayes
ISBN: 9781780239743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In this new account of a gifted, charismatic character, Kevin J. Hayes reviews Twain's life, from his early journalism to his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn , and from the travelogue Life on the Mississippi to his final work, the sprawling, episodic Mark Twain's Autobiography Mark Twain is a fresh, clear-sighted account of a crucial American writer.
(Paperback)
By: Valerie Lawson
ISBN: 9780733626371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. But the story of Mary Poppins' creator - Australian Pamela Lyndon Travers - as this first biography reveals, is just as unexpected and remarkable.
(Hardback)
By: Pat Thomas
ISBN: 9781648230363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th December 2023
Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Rachel Barrowman
ISBN: 9780864739926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for TV and film. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Gee's life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming man in the grey cardy alongside his unsettling stories.
