Soffritto

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Every Italian cook has a soffritto – the ‘starter kit’ of olive oil, garlic and herbs from which a great dish is built. Lucio Galletto was in search of the soffritto of his life.He’d grown up between …

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

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‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …

Untouchable

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Drawing on never-before-seen material, this definitive biography exposes the true extent of the Jackson family’s dysfunctionality — evidence of which is still in the public eye as they dispute the st …

Both Sides of the Wire

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This is Bill Cull’s unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain W …

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World

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Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.

Over the Top

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Australia’s diggers didn’t go ‘over the top’ for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion – extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men. Henry George Hartnett, known as ‘Har …

Saving Private Sarbi

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Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission …

Fire and Song

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It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. …

George Smith

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George Smith is one of the greatest players Australian rugby has ever produced, and certainly one of the all-time best, open-side flankers in the world arena.After becoming the fourth Wallaby and the …

Antonia and her Daughters

The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and woman with the ‘fairytale life’, longs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by a …

Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers

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Rich in history, castles and larger-than-life characters, St. Declan’s Way is one of Ireland’s best kept secrets.Rosamund’s adventures begin when she is lent a map of the ancient highway and pilgrim r …

Kokoda Wallaby

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Stan Bisset was a real hero, both in battle, on the rugby pitch and in desperate armed combat against the Japanese during the Second World War.As a member of the ill-fated 1939 Wallaby touring team to …

Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia

On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two year …

The Art of Perception

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Robert Leaf is the father of modern international public relations. The Art of Perception is the memoir of a life lived behind the scenes of the invisible business of perception management.

You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead

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He was wearing a pair of leather pants that clung like terrified orphans to his muscular thighs, and a revealing black mesh t-shirt. The outfit seemed at odds with the cream-coloured settee and floral …

Chinese Whispers

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In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the Unit …