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No Man Is An Island

By: Adele Dumont

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Australia, Hachette: 2016

Seller ID: 249901

ISBN: 0733636373

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

In 2010, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont volunteered to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She didn't expect to find the work so rewarding or the people she met so interesting. So when she was offered a job working at Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Australia, she took it. Working at Curtin required a fly-in fly-out lifestyle. Adele lived in a donga in WA, her life full of bus trips to the detention centre; back home in Sydney, she was overwhelmed by the choices and privileges people had. What kept her returning to Curtin were her students: me...
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Nine lives: My Time as MI6's Top Spy inside al-Qaeda

By: Aimen Dean with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Great Britain, OneWorld Publications: 2018

Seller ID: 253477

ISBN: 1786074648

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side - and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bos...
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A Life Like Other People's

By: Alan Bennett

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Faber & Faber / Profile: 2009

Seller ID: 252207

ISBN: 0571248128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today. 242 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped W...
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Untold Stories

By: Alan Bennett

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Faber & Faber / Profile Books: 2006

Seller ID: 253409

ISBN: 0571228313

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud 658 pages. Illustrated with black and white photogr...
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Everything By Design: My Life As an Architect

By: Alan Lapidus

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2007

Seller ID: 247642

ISBN: 0312361661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine Condition

Alan Lapidus' life has been a "Zelig"-like romp through most of the cultural and political highlights of the recent past. He has popped up as architect for or observer of many of our era's most iconic figures, including Donald Trump, various mafia big-shots, mayors, Aristotle and Jackie Onassis, Bob Guccione, pit bosses, real estate legends and spies. "Everything By Design" takes us behind the scenes in Las Vegas, Disney World, Havana, Atlantic City, Moscow, the Amazon rainforest, and New York. Along the way we learn why Mickey Mouse never seems to use the restroom, why the bac...
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Trial By Tandem

By: Alan McCulloch

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Australia, F. W. Cheshire: 1950

Seller ID: 2104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

235 pages. Previous owners details on front blank endpaper. Illustrator: Alan McCulloch. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Travel & Places; travel. Inventory No: 2104. Hardcover
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Reading My Father

By: Alexander Styron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: USA, Scribner: 2011

Seller ID: 244410

ISBN: 1416591796

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing them on a young daughter. Part biography, part memoir, part elegy, Reading My Fathertells the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. From Styron's Tidewater Virginia youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best known books and on through his devastating spiral int...
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Poking Seaweed With A Stick and Running Away from the Smell

By: Alison Whitelock

Price: $10.00

Publisher: South Australia, Wakefield Press: 2008

Seller ID: 249176

ISBN: 1862547572

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good Condition

Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquillisers. This wee book is a bittersweet account of growing up in Scotland in the strange and brutal kingdom we call home. But Poking Seaweed with a Stick is anything but a tale of childhood suffering; it is an enchanted Scottish tale that will have you smiling through your tears and laughing till you cry. 223 pages. Light tanning to page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogr...
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life [Volume One]

By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 2004

Seller ID: 250751

ISBN: 1400080452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Offering a revealing glimpse of what it means to be a woman at the dawn of the twenty-first century, an offbeat memoir is written in the form of an encyclopedia in which the author chronicles her life through a series of alphabetical entries that cover both the trivial and the essential elements of her world as it ponders everything from love and truth to shower tiles. 40,000 first printing. Remnant of sticker to front cover. 220 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1400080452. ISBN/EAN: 9781400080458. Invento...
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Sunshine on Sugar Hill: Once Upon a Time, An Australian Girl Moved to Harlem

By: Angela Gilltrap

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Australia, ABC books: 2009

Seller ID: 238185

ISBN: 0733321917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

From Bondi Beach to the backstreets of Harlem, Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York. From Bondi Beach to the backstreets of Harlem, Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York. In a story that even she will admit borders on the surreal, Angela Gilltrap, ex-StRICtLY DANCING star, finds herself living in Sugar Hill in Harlem, New York City. For a performer who has always sung soul, jazz and gospel music, it is a dream come true. Sharing a six-floor walk-up with her boyfriend, a composer/musicia...
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir

By: Annie Proulx

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Australia, Fourth Estate: 2011

Seller ID: 252737

ISBN: 0007265085

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, ...
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Eighteen Months

By: Anthony Heckstall-Smith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Allan Wingate: 1954

Seller ID: 228632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Condition

240 pages. A bit worn around the edges with a few bumps collected no doubt over the years from normal use.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 228632. Hardcover
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

By: Archie Thompson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Australia, Victory Books: 2010

Seller ID: 249027

ISBN: 0522857671

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

What does it take to become a success? How can setbacks make you stronger? Where do you find guidance on the road to the top? Archie Thompson is one of Australia's best-loved footballers, a ten-year veteran of the Socceroos and marquee player for the A-League's power club, Melbourne Victory. His positive messages will inspire young footballers but are also for anyone wanting to make a difference in sport, business and life. Archie tells how he has been inspired by legendary teammates like Harry Kewell and friend Tim Cahill and guided by some of the greats in the game. But as he explains, the d...
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This Nearly Was Mine

By: Barbara K. Thelander

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Australia, DownUnder Publications:

Seller ID: 232695

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Signed by and Inscribed by the Author. 149 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inscribed by Author. Inventory No: 232695. Paperback
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My Life As Me: A Memoir

By: Barry Humphries

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Australia, Viking: 2002

Seller ID: 248035

ISBN: 0670888346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Taking up where the hugely popular More Please left off, this memoir brings Barry's autobiography up-to-date, but also returns to his early and middle years to deepen the picture already presented. It explores his remaking of himself, his love/hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and stage. 374 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0670888346. ISBN/EAN: 9780670888344. Inventory No: 248035. Hardcover
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Heart Attack...and Back

By: Barry Smith

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Sydney, Rala Publications: 1984

Seller ID: 247309

ISBN: 0959135707

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good Condition

247 pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Health::Medical. ISBN: 0959135707. ISBN/EAN: 9780959135701. Inventory No: 247309. Paperback
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Biting The Big Apple [A Memoir of Life, Love in New York City]

By: Bella Vendramini

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Australia, Hachette: 2008

Seller ID: 245046

ISBN: 0733621848

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good Condition

Bella knew there must be more to life than a series of casual jobs working for increasingly freakish bosses and drinking tea in her Glebe kitchen each night. An actor by trade, she scraped together enough money for a one-way ticket to the Big Apple, enrolling on impulse in the prestigious Strasberg Institute. What life in New York City would offer her she could never have predicted...sometimes ugly, mostly poverty-stricken but always exhilarating, Bella embraced the rollercoaster ride. This is the story of how Bella took on New York - her brilliant love affair that turned sour, the friends she...
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Outback Midwife: From the City to the Bush, One Woman's Labours of Love

By: Beth McCrae

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2015

Seller ID: 249140

ISBN: 0857983946

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

Call the Midwife meets In the Middle of Nowhere in this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife's life 'catching babies'. Outback Midwife is the story of Beth McRae s 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a na ve student nurse to her training as a midwife the days when the words birth plan were unheard of and what women wanted was a long way from being part of any plan - to the outback. Beth's career of catching babies takes her from the city to the bush, bonding with people from all walks of life at one of the most important moments in their l...
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Category: Autobiography