Memoirs
Subjects
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West Island
Otago University Press (NZ)£21.00| /Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by a...
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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 You Take with You
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires...
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Where It Hurts
Newest Press (CA)Original price £17.99Current price £15.99| /This is a highly-charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Lee...
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Who Am I?
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£16.50| /On 8 May 1945, a few days after the end of the war, the Minister of Justice published the War Foster Children Decree. The National Committee for Wa...
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Wild Apples
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love...
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Wild Fierce Life
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This is a heart-stopping collection of true stories from the Pacific Coast that build a vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woma...
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Wings of Angels
Spinifex Press£14.95| /Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Able to manipulate key images, she moves from Niobe in 'widow'...
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Wings of the North
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /This is a true story about bush pilots flying in Northern British Columbia. From beside a fleecy cloud where the icy mountain top hides a rising su...
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Winning for Women
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /What was it like to be involved in the heady days of second wave feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...
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Wobbles
Interactive Press£25.99| /This book spans the physical, psychological and spiritual growth of an athlete from childhood into her stature as a fierce, Olympic competitor. Whe...
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Wolf Spirit
Rocky Mountain Books£28.99| /In 2005, elite marathon mountain runner and cross-country skier Gudrun Pflüger spent five weeks tracking and studying elusive coastal wolves by foo...
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Wounded Breast
Spinifex Press£19.95| /This is a rare multicultural perspective on disease, particularly cancer, in which the author takes on a journey through the medical establishments...
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Writing for Raksmey
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /This book tells of the lives of six families who fled the aftermath of the Cambodian killing fields, were held in a crowded refugee camp at the bor...
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Yak Girl
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£19.99| /This unusual memoir immerses us in the fascinating story of a spirited girl in a remote, undeveloped region of Nepal near the border of Tibet, a pl...
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Year of Fire Dragons
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.95| /In 2010, bookish 22-year-old Shannon Young follows her Eurasian boyfriend to Hong Kong, eager to forge a new love story in his hometown. But when w...
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Yip Sang
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...
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You Only Want Me for My Mind and Other Bedtime Stories
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /This book reveals a quirky boy born not only with cerebral palsy but with an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles and mobilise people. In a world ...
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