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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Not Right in the Head

Michelle Wyatt

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Michelle Wyatt’s mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer’s like her own mother-Michelle’s grandmother-they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did u …

The Convict's Daughter

Kiera Lindsey

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One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father’s Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butl …

The Horse Whisperer

Andrew Froggatt

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Andrew Froggatt has special skills as a horse whisperer: He can train the wildest horse and he’s worked with thousands of horses over the years, from wild, untouched horses, pony club ponies, riding f …

The Sound of Summer

Jim Maxwell

For more than four decades Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. Since 1973 he has covered over 250 Test matches, including six tours to the West Indies, seven to the subcontinent, over fift …

When I Hit You

Meena Kandasamy

RRP: £9.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018Guardian’s Best Books of 2017 Daily Telegraph’s Best Books of 2017 Obse …

Cooking for Busy Mums

Amanda Voisey

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As a busy new mum, Amanda Voisey was struggling to juggle life and cooking for her family. It wasn’t as if she didn’t know how to cook – she’d started her first job in the food industry at 14, and gon …

Freeman's Home

John Freeman

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The third literary anthology in the series that has been called ‘ambitious’ (O Magazine) and ‘strikingly international’ (Boston Globe), Freeman’s: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and s …

Our Boys

Richard Aston

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Our Boys is a positive, practical, down-to-earth guide that outlines what makes boys tick, describes their development from babyhood to childhood to manhood, and is full of great ideas and suggestions …

Primary School Confidential

Mrs Woog

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Primary school, that special place where little kids turn into big kids, where letters turn into words, numbers turn into more confusing numbers and lunchboxes turn into bacterial breeding grounds. Wh …

All This in 60 Minutes

Nicholas Lee

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For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia’s most-respected and most-watched current affairs program.All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilar …

Prick With a Fork

Larissa Dubecki

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Before she was one of Australia’s top restaurant critics, Larissa Dubecki was one of its worst waitresses. A loving homage to her ten-year reign of dining-room terror, Prick With a Fork takes you wher …

Their Promised Land

Ian Buruma

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Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school …

Desert Vet

Alex Tinson

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When Sydney-born vet Alex Tinson was literally plucked from the Australian outback to become chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President’s racing camels, he was given one mission: to mak …

Finding Sanity

Greg de Moore

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In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives – if they survived – in and out of asylums accumulating life’s wreckage around them. But late in …

Paris Undressed

Kathryn Kemp-Griffin

French women seem inherently more confident in their bodies, able to embrace the sensuality of life and love. What’s their secret? Lingerie.Yet, despite an insatiable curiosity for all things French, …

Behind the Tape

Lance Burdett

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Lance Burdett was in the police force for twenty-two years, in a variety of high-level roles: head of negotiation team; running 111 centre; intelligence management; protection squad and emergency resp …

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