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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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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /A quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service. Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert Willi...
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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£33.99| /One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£48.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£35.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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The Backpack
Linden Publishing (US)£17.99| /A former police officer tells his personal story of the long climb from depression to faith in the intense new personal memoir The Backpack. An ama...
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The Real James Bond
Schiffer£22.99| /Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything Ive had my James Bond do. -- Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and .....
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The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like ...
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To a Distant Island
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing vi...
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What Lies Beneath
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The firs...
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What the Mouth Wants
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghettis unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love...
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Where the Nights Are Twice as Long
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary...
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William Saroyan
Linden Publishing (US)£27.99| /Lavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winnin...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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Writers on the Air
Paul Dry Books (US)£25.99| /Writers on the Air brings to print for the first time Donna Seaman's vibrant author interviews from her Chicago-based radio program, Open Books. In...
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Yes, It's Possible
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...
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Your Unselfish Kindness
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...
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Yunus Emre
Blue Dome Press (US)£11.99| /One of the most famous poets in the history of Turkish literature, Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is well-known as a Sufi saint-poet who has exerted a great ...
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