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Geoffrey Blainey
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the...
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Hard-Boiled Anxiety
Secant Publishing LLC£25.99| /Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...
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Hard-Boiled Anxiety
Secant Publishing LLC£17.99| /Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...
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If I Could Turn and Meet Myself
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...
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Kaufman's Hill
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /Kaufman's Hill opens with a prosaic neighbourhood scene: The author and some other young boys are playing by the creek, one of their usual stomping...
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L'uomo inquieto
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£22.99| /TEXT IN ITALIAN. The work of A Tabucchi, one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts q...
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L. Ron Hubbard -- Poet/Lyricist
New Era Publications International APS£35.00| /Through verse and lyrics, L. Ron Hubbard communicates his personal view of the world as no other art form can. His works span the entirety of his l...
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Lad from Nelson
Evelyn Kent (UK)£7.95| /The moving story of Frank Entwistle, a Lancashire lad, who grew up in the shadow of England's twentieth century mills. It tells of his subsequent j...
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Leaving New Jersey
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /This collection recounts the story of leaving America, where the author was born, and of arriving in Australia, where she did not plan to stay. It...
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Letters From New Orleans
Garrett County Press (US)£13.99| /Rob Walker, columnist for The New York Times Magazine, energises the lately enervated worlds of memoir and travelogue with his book-length debut, '...
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Life of Charles Dickens
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£318.99| /It has been stated that Charles Dickens began life as a lawyer, got tired of the dull routine, and turned to literature. This is erroneous, for he ...
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Lower than Angels
Bartleby Press (US)£20.99| /When he wrote this memoir over sixty years ago, the author planned a privately printed edition as gifts for his friends. He chose a pseudonym, W. W...
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Magical Universe of William S Burroughs
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£15.00| /"In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of scie...
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Marcel Proust
Edition Olms AG£45.00| /"For a long time I used to go to bed early": possibly the most famous opening line in the French language and the first words of a masterly work wh...
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Mark Twain
Schiffer£13.99| /This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of wr...
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Medicine and Humor from the Writings of Hans Sachs and Hans Folz, Meistersinger
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...
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Mnemonic
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction AwardWarm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defi...
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Nature's Ambassador
Schiffer£22.99| /For over 100 years, the animal books and stories of beloved children’s author Thornton W. Burgess have delighted millions of children and their par...
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me...
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Randolph Caldecott
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the pict...
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Random Illuminations
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (a...
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Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
Silman-James Press (US)£20.99| /This book offers an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose cred...
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Rider Haggard, Henry Miller & I
New Falcon Publications (US)£30.99| /The struggles of those called to write, suffering rejection after rejection until finally recognised. This work explores the psychological and arch...
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Rittenhouse Writers
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction works...
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