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  • Please Don't Take My Baby
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    Please Don't Take My Baby

    ‘I’m going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,’ Jade said. ‘I’ll show my mum she’s wrong.’Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more than a child...
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    All Hell Let Loose
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    All Hell Let Loose

    A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;...
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    Faster Than Lightning
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    Faster Than Lightning

    The autobiography of the fastest man of all time, eight-time Olympic gold medalist, eleven-time World Champion, and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet. Whether you know athletics or not, and...
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  • David Mitchell
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    David Mitchell

    David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on...
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    Children of God Storybook Bible
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    Children of God Storybook Bible

    A beautiful book of illustrated Bible stories, retold by the world’s best-loved cleric. Nobel prizewinner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, re-tells over fifty of his favourite Bible stories for an audience of young readers.From classics such as the stories of...
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  • Mistress of the Empire
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    Mistress of the Empire

    Third in stunning reissues of Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts classic trilogy – one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time. THE EMPIRE TRILOGY: BOOK IIIThe final play of the game. Surrounded on all sides by warring factions, assassins...
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    Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
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    Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

    Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold… And suddenly...
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  • Papillon
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    Papillon

    A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he...
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    Dead by Friday Dead by Friday
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    Dead by Friday

    He was once a bronzed lifesaver but is now a balding, overweight Beaurepaires manager nearing 40, an ambitious man with desires his marriage cannot satisfy. She is 29, the wife of one of his employees; a serial cheater and manipulator, she can curl her...
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  • Murder in the Heartland Murder in the Heartland
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    Murder in the Heartland

    In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen—rural Missouri and Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or...
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    The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens
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    The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens

    As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the world's mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another time but implicitly raises questions...
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    Little Bit Little Bit
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    Little Bit

    'She was a good person when she wasn't drunk.' Debbie's earliest memory of her mother is that her mother was not there, but any story of neglect always has two sides. When Debbie's daughter, Heather, says she wants to write a book about her upbringing,...
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    A View from the Horizon A View from the Horizon
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    A View from the Horizon

    In A View from the Horizon one of South Australia's most influential  political reformers  tells his life story with frank disclosure. Five years after he graduated as a lawyer, aged 28, Peter Duncan entered the South...
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  • Lands of Lost Borders Lands of Lost Borders
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    Lands of Lost Borders

    "Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."--Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling...
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    The Widow Clicquot The Widow Clicquot
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    The Widow Clicquot

    "Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling." -- Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's VinegarThe New York Times bestselling biography of the visionary young woman who built a champagne empire, became a legend,...
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    Nature's Line Nature's Line
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    Nature's Line

    George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries - who satirised him as...
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  • Life and Myth of Charmian Clift Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
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    Life and Myth of Charmian Clift

    Charmian Clift's writing captivated readers across the nation. Her life inspired legends and fascinated thousands. Now at last here is the real story. Charmian Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales, in 1923. In this close-knit seaside community Clift...
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  • Our King Our King
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    Our King

    The definitive biography of King Charles with exclusive material and insight from a source close to the King himself.
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    Straight Lady

    On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. A Broadway regular by the 1920s, Dumont found lasting fame once she started appearing with the Marx Brothers. Tall and regal in bearing, her character provided the...
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    Red Professor Red Professor
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    Red Professor

    Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors.More than any other injustice, the...
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    A War of Loves A War of Loves
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    A War of Loves

    In A War of Loves, David Bennett describes his unexpected journey from gay activism and a distrust of religion to becoming a follower of Jesus, a journey that included pivotal relationships, supernatural encounters with God, and ultimately a new...
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    Secrets Beyond the Screen
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    Secrets Beyond the Screen

    How well does anyone know their family?Anita Jacoby AM is one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers. Now she uncovers one of the most extraordinary stories of all, long hidden within her own family.The father Anita knew had fled...
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    Gough and Me
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    Gough and Me

    When Gough Whitlam moves into her street in Cabramatta in 1957, eight-year-old Christine has little idea how her new neighbour, one of the most visionary and polarising political leaders of Australia, would shape the direction of her life. Born to...
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    Rebellious Daughters
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    Rebellious Daughters

    Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories...
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    The Cherry Picker's Daughter
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    The Cherry Picker's Daughter

    This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights...
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    In My Blood
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    In My Blood

    An extraordinary life, from ordinary beginnings.Optimism, resilience, audacity, hope, surviving daily challenges for themselves and those they love; carers embody all of these qualities. Cheryl Koenig's fifth book, a memoir, deals with all those human...
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    A Long Way from No Go
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    A Long Way from No Go

    This is a memoir of an Aboriginal woman, Tjanara Goreng Goreng, who began life without any of the advantages of her fellow non-Indigenous Australians except for grit, humour and diverse talent in spades. Through one woman's story, this book...
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  • Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth
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    Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth

    'Alex Creece's Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth is a reckless, glorious, grotty revolution. It's an insubordinate 'kissyface of cobwebs' that sticks it to capitalism, heteronormativity and the patriarchy.Quotably horny and delightfully vulgar, Potty...
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    Telling Lives
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    Telling Lives

    'What we now want from a biography, or autobiography, is the very thing that Virginia Woolf said that we have no right to want: art. Not only art, obviously, but art nevertheless. And we love the illumination of dark corners of the soul, having...
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    Townsend of the Ranges
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    Townsend of the Ranges

    Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (18121869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country's second highest mountain, but the details of his career are obscure and his personal identity has...
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    Dear Mutzi
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    Dear Mutzi

    Harry Peters - formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi - was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry's parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps.This story, of...
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    If Everyone Cared Enough
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    If Everyone Cared Enough

    Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first...
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  • Bold Types
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    Bold Types

    In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and...
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    Cursed Shards
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    Cursed Shards

    Be careful what you wish for...We've all heard childhood fairy tales and hearthside stories passed from generation to generation warning us of unseen dangers lurking in the dark forest, the glimpse of a future in watery reflections and to be wary of...
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    Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3

    In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of...
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    Killer Creatures Down Under
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    Killer Creatures Down Under

    Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you'll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer...
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    Time Flies / Time Flies Too
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    Time Flies / Time Flies Too

    Enjoy all of Al Clark's absorbing recollections in this combined bundle of both of his memoirs.Time FliesTime Fliesis an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a...
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    Farewell to Robert
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    Farewell to Robert

    Two men, Robert and Vras, met in 1993 and formed a committed relationship until Robert's death of leukemia in May, 2022. This short book is a farewell letter to Robert, a long lamentation and a threnody, exploring the nature of their friendship, their...
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    In Exile from St Petersburg
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    In Exile from St Petersburg

    With a passport stamped 'never to return', St Petersburg intellectual and publisher Abram Kagan was expelled by Lenin in 1922, ending up in Berlin, where his young son Anatol would read the proofs of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution. But...
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    Time Flies Too
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    Time Flies Too

    Time Flies Too is the sequel to 2021's beguiling and absorbing memoir Time Flies by Al Clark, who in its last paragraph married and settled in Australia after a Spanish village childhood, a Scottish boarding school education and nearly two decades of...
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    Clever Man
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    Clever Man

    Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Aboriginal Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu.Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land,...
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    Nomad Girl
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    Nomad Girl

    'Oodnadatta Country I can still see it, in my mind's eye, exactly as it was back in my time. The 'There are so many stories to tell of my life, and sometimes I think they are not of importance, but they are, because often it is the little details that...
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