Biography
A Blaze of Obscurity (Clive James) |
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For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second – this despite the fact that his adventures with the written word took place before...
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A Fortunate Life (A B Facey) |
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Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife...
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A Life Like Other People's (Alan Bennett) |
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Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling...
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A Nest of Occasionals (Tony Martin) |
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Following on from the dubious, but resounding, success of Lolly Scramble, comedian Tony Martin returns with another collection of tales from his life outside show business...
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A Scandalous Life (Mary S Lovell) |
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A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of Englands most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment...
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Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet (a |
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Adland is the wickedly funny, compelling personal chronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man; a riveting insider’s look at the astonishing transformation...
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Affection (Krissy Kneen) |
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Krissy Kneen was raised by a very protective, quite eccentric family who avoided any mention of sexuality: perhaps it was no coincidence that she became obsessed by the very idea of sex...
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip wit |
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Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join David Foster Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport...
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Alzheimes: A Love Story |
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When Vivienne Ulman's youngest child left home, she and her husband were poised to enjoy their freedom. Then her mother's Alzheimer's intervened...
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Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife (Francine Prose) |
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In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape...
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Balibo (Jill Jolliffe) |
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In October 1975, during the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor, five young television reporters travelled from Australia to report on the brewing unrest in the region. It was a journey that would be their last...
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Brief Encounters (Susannah Fullerton) |
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Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, countless distinguished writers made the long and arduous voyage across the seas to Australia. They came to give lecture tours and make money, to sort out difficult children sent here...
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Chanel: Her Life, Her World, the Woman Behind the Legend (Edmond |
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She revolutionised how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5...
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China Cuckoo: How I Lost a Fortune and Found a Life in China (Ma |
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A charming true story of a witty and eccentric Sinophile Englishman and his Chinese tree-change....
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City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s (Edmund |
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In the 1970s, Paris had fashion, London had the theatre, Berlin had a small painting scene, but New York had all these cultural attainments and more - a vibrant intellectual life...
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Cooking With Baz (Sean Dooley) |
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'Baz and my culinary tastes had, like virtually everything in our lives, moved in different directions. He was a meat and three veg kind of bloke. Me, well, I didn't know what kind of bloke I was.'...
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Cravat-a-Licious (Matt Preston) |
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Australia knows him as the cravat-wearing critic and hulking soulful judge on TV's crazily successful MasterChef Australia but it's his writing that has had the food world talking for the last ten years...
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Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian Writers and Artist |
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Penelope Hanley delves into the papers of 22 well-known Australian literary and artistic figures and gives us an insight into their...
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Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle |
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Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Australia...
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Diaries (George Orwell) |
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George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. Eleven diaries are presented here, and we know there may be two more from his time in Spain hidden away in the NKVD Archives in...
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