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Waiting Room
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Gabrielle Carey

This is the first work I`ve read by Gabrielle Carey since the seminal Puberty Blues, which she co-authored in the 1970s, and I wasn`t disappointed. In this intimate, insightful memoir, Carey reveals how a family copes with a life-threatening illness (her mother`s brain tumour). As she delves into unspoken family history, Carey puts the spotlight on relationships, past and present, to deliver a most engaging read.

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David Williamson: Behind the Scenes
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Kristin Williamson

The influence of David Williamson on the literary and cultural pulse of the nation is hard to understate, especially when it is remembered that his plays have been forming part of Australia`s social commentary for more than forty years. Kristin Williamson, with her journalist`s ability for investigative questioning and succinct writing, conveys a sense of her husband that is helped rather than hindered by her personal connection to him.

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A Lion Called Christian
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Anthony Bourke & John Rendall

On Mother`s Day recently I bought this for my Mum, and wow, was I the popular daughter! She`d seen the famous YouTube segment and watched the documentary on the television, and was delighted to be able to read the whole story and fill in the gaps with this book. My own teenage daughter has since borrowed it, read it, and loved it. Now it`s my turn.

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Always Liza to Me
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Cecilia Rice

A bravely honest memoir, this is Cecilia Rice`s account of living with Liza, her disabled sister. It is a story of the turmoil of emotions for all involved and how this family unit came to achieve a loving, functioning life.

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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Peter Fitzsimons

Even today when air travel is commonplace, the sheer audacity of the pioneer aviators in thinking it was possible to fly is breathtaking.

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The Sisters Antipodes
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Jane Alison

This is a frank account of the lives of two families and two young girls. Opening in 1965, both families meet and instantly become connected and it is not long before divorces and remarriages occur between the four adults. Told through the eyes of one of the young girls, it is uncompromising in its detail of the disintegration of the separate family units and the devastating effect of their shared histories.

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Always Looking Up
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Michael J. Fox

“Work, Speaking Out (politics), Seeking Answers (faith), Safe at Home (family).” These are the four themes Michael J Fox identifies as critical to his continued life with Parkinson`s Disease. This book is a memoir of the past ten years and is an account of his journey since his first book, Lucky Man, was published.

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Little Daughter
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Zoya Phan

Zoya lives and works in London for the human rights organisation Burma Campaign UK. Her journey to this point in her life began in the jungles of Burma and encompasses escaping the Burmese army`s attacks and fleeing as a refugee, via Bangkok, to the UK where she sought and was granted asylum.

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She Always Knew How: Mae West
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Charlotte Chandler

Mae West is quoted as saying “I`ve become legendary, but not historical. I`m contemporary”. What is interesting in reading this biography from an author who met and conducted interviews with Mae West is that many of her ideas and viewpoints on life and the differences between men and women do resonate with contemporary debates.

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The Kissinger Saga
Price: AUD 55.00 Author: Evi Kurz

Henry and Walter Kissinger were born a year apart in southern Germany of Jewish parents. As the 1930s dawned the family had to flee; settled in America, both sons would go on to be highly successful in their chosen fields. Walter went into a career in business while Henry became a key figure in Cold War diplomacy.

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The Frock-Coated Communist
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Tristam Hunt

Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of international communism, is the subject of this all-encompassing biography. Communism is centre-stage in terms of Engels` pivotal role and his relationships with other, iconic figures of the movement. But this is also the story of Engels, the middle-class Victorian gentleman. Born into a wealthy mercantile family in Germany, he spent his early working life in the Manchester cotton industry. It is interesting to understand his political development set against his personal background.

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Mighty Queens of Freeville
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Amy Dickinson

The town of Freeville in New York has a population of just over 400 people, of whom Amy Dickinson and her daughter are two. A syndicated columnist, Dickinson took herself back to Freeville with her daughter and describes in this memoir that experience, and the roads that led her away in the first place.

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Not Without You
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Alan & Irene Brogan

Having been placed in care after his mother died, Alan was age seven when he first met Irene. It was the day she arrived to stay, having also lost her mother. The story of how these two people would eventually become partners is a testament to their love. It is also an expose of institutionalised care as it functioned in the 1950s and 60s where an individual’s feelings were rarely considered.

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Reborn
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Susan Sontag

This is a selection of excerpts from the diaries kept by Sontag between 1947 and 1964. At the age of sixteen, she declared that she wanted to experience everything and set out on a path to do just that. We follow Sontag’s physical and emotional journeys at a critical time in her life which would inform her later writing.

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Straight on till Morning
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Mary S. Lovell

The preface to this book is written by the subject of the biography, Beryl Markham. It validates the claim that Mary Lovell is the person best placed to follow from where Beryl Markham left off at the end of her autobiographical book West with the Night. A remarkable woman and aviator, Markham’s last months were spent in Lovell’s company.

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A Journal for Jordan
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Dana Canedy

First Sergeant Charles Monroe King was an American soldier, based in Baghdad when he was killed in 2006. A year earlier, he had started keeping a journal for his then unborn son. At the time of his death, that son was just seven months old. With additional words from his wife, King’s journal stands as a testament to love and a record of the cost of war.

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Bounder!
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Graham McCann

Terry Thomas is synonymous with the caricature of the English rascal – sharply dressed, irreverent, and engaging. His career in entertainment spanned several decades and took in England and America, with perhaps his most famous role being in the film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

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Stella Miles Franklin
Price: AUD 59.99 Author: Jill Roe

Every time we utter the name Miles Franklin, we are making a direct connection to the First Fleeters and to the Irish influence on this country through her ancestors. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in 1879 and died in 1954. Her two bequests, the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 145 volumes of manuscripts and papers left to the State Library of New South Wales, ensure she remains a vibrant member of the Australian literary community. This book fills in the rest of the story, that of an incredible person.

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Gough Whitlam
Price: AUD 59.99 Author: Jenny Hocking

It is hard to imagine any Australian, whether they lived through the 1970s or not, would not know the name Whitlam. This former Prime Minister looms large over any discussion of politics or indeed Australian society of the modern period. What is perhaps less appreciated is the family into which Gough Whitlam was born and how that places in context so much of the man’s actions and words. Jenny Hocking presents an exhaustive and fascinating biography.

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Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: David Day

With the present incumbent also from Queensland, it is perhaps timely to revisit the story of Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister. Scottish born but Queensland resident, he was elected to the first Federal Parliament and served in the role of Prime Minister three times. His terms in office are characterised by grand plans for the nation that included the establishment of the national capital and a determined view on how to ensure the safety and protection of the new nation; a view that led us into Gallipoli and the Western Front. David Day has produced the first in-depth study of this important figure in Australian political history.

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Leo 'Rumpole' McKern
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: George Whaley

This takes us right back to the beginning of Leo McKern's startling career. Australian born, McKern will forever be Horace Rumpole, but he was also much, much more.

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Manning Clark
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Brian Matthews

Manning Clark's six-volume history of Australia is perhaps his most enduring legacy, but he is also remembered for his uncompromising, argumentative, and individualistic approach to his work and to life. Brian Matthews' intellectual biography is a worthy addition to Clark’s works.

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Catherine's Gift
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: John Little

Dr. Catherine Hamlin was thirty-five when she and her husband Reg first travelled to Ethiopia. She is now eighty-three and continues to save the lives of women who suffer from obstetric fistula - a dreadful condition that typically causes the sufferer to be completely abandoned and banished. The author first met Catherine Hamlin seven years ago and is as in awe of her skill and humanity today as he was when he first met her and experienced the life-changing work she and her colleagues perform.

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Parky
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Michael Parkinson

Michael Parkinson has a great fondness for Australia and the Australian character. Hence, this look back on a career filled with celebrities from all walks of life has a nice reflection or two on our land downunder. His journalistic background produces a well written and enjoyable autobiography.

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The House Of Wittgenstein
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Alexander Waugh

The thought that truth is often stranger than the alternative has perhaps never been more accurately applied than to the Wittgenstein family. Alexander Waugh's examination of this complex and sad family is masterly.

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Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters
Price: AUD 65.00 Author: Dirk Bogarde

"Letters, I think, unless they are brilliant, can be a bit of a bore. And mine are not brilliant. Amusing, perhaps, light, and loving but they aint Intellectual!" So wrote Dirk Bogarde (with his characteristic disdain for punctuation) to one of his co-correspondents. Brilliant or not, his letters as selected and edited by John Coldstream are engaging, interesting, and a chronicle of a fascinating man's life.

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Samuel Johnson
Price: AUD 65.00 Author: Peter Martin

Johnson died in 1794 yet is portrayed through his own writings and this comprehenisve biography as a man of modernity. He famously burnt many of his own papers because he saw only failure in the past, yet he remains an insightful writer across a vast array of subjects and his reputation would quell anybody’s suggestion of a failed life.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Price: AUD 65.00 Author: Gerald Martin

With more than fifteen years of research behind it, this book will surely be the definitive biography of a most influential writer. Gerald Martin has enjoyed unique access to Marquez, to his family and friends, and to his critics. It is an uncommon opportunity to understand a legendary writer whilst he is still amongst us.

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Wartime Notebooks
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Marguerite Duras

Duras remains one of the most significant French novelists of the last century. The four notebooks she kept during the 1940s are a chronicle of the world in that turbulent period and a glimpse into the soul of this remarkable woman.

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Elizabeth Taylor
Price: AUD 59.99 Author: Alexander Thiltges et al

Page after page of photographs accentuate how genuinely, naturally beautiful this screen legend was, and remains. It also reminds us of a different era when the word celebrity denoted much more than it does today.

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