Madam Lash

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Gretel Pinniger, dominatrix, fetishist, artist, and courtesan to the rich and famous has been shocking and outraging Australia for decades. Never shy of publicity, this introverted daughter of a hands …

What It Is Like To Go To War

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In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military …

Pearl Jam Twenty

One of the key bands of the Seattle-based grunge movement of the 1990s, Pearl Jam broke on to the world stage with their album, Ten, which went on to become an alternative rock classic. For over two d …

Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue

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BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 SPEAR’S BEST FAMILY HISTORY AWARD150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill – a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire – was ho …

You Better Not Cry

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From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes a A wonderfully twisted collection of true Christmas stories.Of course you’ve eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you …

As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil

Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

Dry

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative memoir. Outrageously fuinny and scorchingly honest.You may not know it, but you’ve me …

Possible Side Effects

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads t …

West

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West tells the story of Jim Perrin’s life against the lives and deaths of his cherished wife and son, and the landscapes through which they travelled together. It is a complex and sensual love-story, …

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

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‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …

Cooking Dirty

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From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial a …

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

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Shortlisted for the Thurber Prize for American Humor22 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list’Wonderfully intelligent and frank… I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, b …

Paradoxical Undressing

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Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was …

The Woman Who Thought too Much

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2011Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn’t want to think, and does things she doesn’t want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive …

Splendour and Squalor

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They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to …

Anne Frank

Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two yea …