Maggie by Maggie Tabberer
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There are few genuine larger than life, enduring legends in Australia. Maggie is one of them, and this is her frank, forthright, no-holds barred story.
Recollections of a Westminster Antiquary by Lawrence Edward Tanner
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Saki - A Life of Hector Hugh Munro: With Six Stories Never Before Collected by A. J. Langguth
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Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe by Chris Laoutaris
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"Fabulous! Ground-breaking ...a gripping tale that enables us to see Shakespeare in a new light". (Alison Weir). In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare...Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespe ...Show more
The Good German of Nanking - The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe; Erwin Wickert (Editor); John E. Woods (Translator)
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In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe, who ran the local Siemens factory, refused on the grounds that it would show a bad example to his Chinese workers. Sendi ...Show more
Alfred Russel Wallace : A Life by Peter Raby
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within a fortnight, his outline and Wal ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
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A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
What Do You Do with Them on Sunday's? by Harold Kent
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A compelling portrait of the life of drovers and stockmen working on the big cattle stations in the 1950s, from a first-time author who spent most of his working life in the Australian Outback.Banjo didn't get it quite right, but then again, Banjo probably had never been a drover.So begins this gritty a ...Show more