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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Both Sides of the Wire

William Cull

RRP: £12.99

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

Stephen Trombley

RRP: £12.99

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

H.G. Hartnett

RRP: £9.99

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

Sandra Lee

RRP: £9.99

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

Anna Lanyon

RRP: £12.99

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

Rupert Guinness

RRP: £12.99

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

Marlena de Blasi

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

Rosamund Burton

RRP: £9.99

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

Andrew James

RRP: £12.99

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

James Bell

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

Robert Leaf

RRP: £16.99

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

Marieke Hardy

RRP: £12.99

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

Jan Wong

RRP: £20.00

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 …

How to be a Better Person

Seb Hunter

RRP: £7.99

Why is it so difficult to find the time to help others? When Seb Hunter became aware of a nagging ache in the place where his soul ought to be, he embarked on a two year odyssey of volunteering – with …

Not Me

Joachim Fest

From the author of Inside Hitler’s Bunker, the critically acclaimed book that inspired the equally acclaimed 2005 film Downfall.Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as …

Tom Wills

Greg de Moore

RRP: £8.99

This is the story of Tom Wills – flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent …

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