Memoirs
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All Sky, Mirror Ocean
The University of Alberta Press£38.99| /All Sky, Mirror Ocean weaves and knots autobiography, research-creation, and creative philosophy into an exploration of mental illness, healing, an...
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Better Broken Than New
Amaurea Press£19.95| /Following a successful career as an award-winning, best- selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Terán retreated to a remote village in northern...
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Flying with Paper Wings
Spinifex Press£19.95| /Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat in 1953. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976, a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and o...
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Gently to Nagasaki
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Sl...
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Gilly the Ghillie
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£20.99| /David Giblins stint as a seasonal salmon fishing guide on Stuart Island provides a seemingly endless supply of hilarious and bizarre stories that ...
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Going to the Wars
Paul Dry Books (US)£18.99| /My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...
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Good Lawyer Bad Lawyer
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£20.99| /Stories of trails form the Vancouver courts, based on lawyer David Nuttal's 30 years of experiences working there.
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Grandfathered
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£23.99| /One summer, shortly after taking a step back from an illustrious journal-ism career, Ian Haysom found himself in charge of his first grandchild, Ma...
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Grief Sucks ... But Love Bears All Things
Linden Publishing (US)£13.99| /Gayle Taylor Davis had it all, a husband she adored, two successful daughters, and a career she enjoyed. Then one phone call took it all away, when...
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Growing Up Hockey
Folklore Publishing (CA)£15.99| /If only an honest book can live, as Emerson said, then Growing Up Hockey is immortal. It's the story of everyone who plays or cares about the game....
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Gypsy Fugue
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Who is to say that the outer stories of our lives are more important than the images that haunt our imagination? What if memoir could capture the v...
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Hammer & Nail
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /In the long-awaited follow-up to her 2012 memoir, Journeywoman, Kate Braid returns with an honest and thought-provoking collection of essays reflec...
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Heart Stood Still
Otago University Press£16.00| /Miriam Sharland's eco-memoir Heart Stood Still is the latest title in the Ka Haea Te Ata series from Otago University Press, a series dedicated to ...
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Her Darling Boy
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £23.99Current price £7.99| /The battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has been characterized as a defining moment in Canadian history. The idea of thousands of Canadian ...
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Home
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /"In a world increasingly cynical and numb, Powning puts a light in the window for us all, wherever we call home." -- The Chicago Tribune
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Home and Away
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away...
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Hong Kong Confidential
Blacksmith Books (HK)£15.99| /A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another little corner of the veil of half-truths and anodyne official releas...
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Hong Kong on the Brink
Blacksmith Books (HK)£13.99| /Syd Goldsmiths first taste of Chinas Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It is 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led rio...
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Hotel Kid
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /In its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, the Taft was the biggest hotel in midtown Manhattan. Stephen Lewis grew up in this New York landmark, where hi...
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How Deep is the Lake
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Curious about the previous inhabitants of the lake community where her family has vacationed for over one hundred years, author Shelley OCallaghan...
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How to Hong Kong
Blacksmith Books (HK)£19.99| /In this joyful travel sketchbook, Hong Kong is captured through the hearts of a writer and an artist. From the winding, incense-filled streets of S...
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I Get Paid for This
Huntington Press Inc (US)£16.99| /This is a hilarious must-read for anyone intrigued by Las Vegas nightlife or the real lives of the unique people who truly make Sin City tick. From...
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I Shall Not Die!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /He came penniless to the United States after surviving the Holocaust Hart Hasten rose to the top levels of finance and industry. He became an integ...
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I Shock Myself
Schiffer£18.99| /In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. R...
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