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NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW, 2022. Softcover. Very Good Condition. A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion.… Read more about this item

Michael Joseph, Australia, 2015. Softcover. Good Condition. The stakes are high for the smart and spirited vets charged with caring for Australia's rural livestock, wildlife and beloved family pets. Those who call the outback home often depend on animals for their wellbeing – and, in many cases, their livelihood. In far south-west Queensland, Rachel Wilson… Read more about this item

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc, New York, 2001. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Alcoholics Anonymous (also known as the Big Book in recovery circles) sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. The fourth edition includes twenty-four new stories that… Read more about this item

New Holland, Australia, 2000. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Guide to Australias most notorious bushrangers Australians have always had a soft spot for the daring bushrangers of last century with their contempt for organised authority. In fact, Ned Kelly is still considered almost a hero by some. Bill Scott looks at the most notorious of Australia's… Read more about this item

Hermes House, London, 2004. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Music; Biography & Autobiography; Biography. ISBN: 1843096935. ISBN/EAN: 9781843096931. Inventory No: 268978.. 9781843096931

Ebury Press, Great Britain, 2008. Softcover. Good Condition. Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the 20th century's most charismatic and controversial characters. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a Nobel Prize-winning author and was twice prime minister. He is best remembered as the astute and powerful orator who… Read more about this item

Hardie Grant Books, Australia, 2007. Reprint. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition. Helen O’Neill’s Florence Broadhurst – Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives is the beautifully designed, fully illustrated, award-winning biography of murdered Sydney wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst, one of Australia’s most colourful and eccentric creatives. ‘She lived her life like a spy – changing her appearance,… Read more about this item

Hardie Grant Books, Australia, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Andre Rieu is a violinist, conductor and international star following sales of more than 10 million CDs worldwide. With his extravagant concerts and compelling TV specials he has won the hearts of millions of music lovers. Andre Rieu was born in the Netherlands, in 1949.… Read more about this item

Hachette, Australia, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They… Read more about this item

Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2011. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Kokichi Nishimura was a member of the 2nd battalion, 144th Regiment of the Japanese Imperial Army. In 1942 he fought along every foot of Kokoda as the Japanese attempted to take Port Moresby. He was the only man from his company to survive the campaign. As… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, London, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. The Prince of Wales counted among many friends and she was brilliant in company. But she was seen as an eccentric - an outsider. What defined this poet… Read more about this item

Victor Gollancz, London, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Summers' biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior didn't begin with Watergate. Drawing on over 1000 interviews & 5 years of research, he reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue & power, whose subversion of democracy during Watergate was the… Read more about this item

Random House, Australia, 2003. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Peter Hughes was the man whose blistered and swollen face we saw on television during the shocking first hours of the news coverage from Bali. He literally took our breath away when we heard him quietly tell rescuers he was okay and to help those worse off… Read more about this item

Abc Books, Sydney, NSW, 1995. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Professor Fred Hollows remembered. 188 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0733304257. ISBN/EAN: 9780733304255. Inventory No: 268885.. 9780733304255

Are Media Books, Australia, 2022. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New. It was February 6th, 1952 during a royal tour of Kenya when Princess Elizabeth received the call that her father King George had passed away. Also there that day was The Australian Women's Weekly's royal correspondent Anne Matheson, who had covered the Windsor family's triumphs… Read more about this item

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2023. Softcover. Very Good Condition. A decade before his death in 2022, Frank Moorhouse asked renowned journalist, writer and academic Catharine Lumby to be his biographer. This was an inspired choice, influenced by their decades of friendship and by Lumby's close engagement with, and appreciation for, Moorhouse's writing. She 'got' him… Read more about this item

Palgrave / Macmillan, USA, 2006. Softcover. Very Good Condition. In 1954 reporter Uri Dan met a young military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely for more than half a century. Dan became Sharon's trusted advisor and a witness to the defining moments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--from secret meetings with heads of state to… Read more about this item

Abacus, Great Britain, 2000. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Queen Victoria, a woman of diminutive stature and superabundant temperament, gave her name to something more than an age. Elizabeth Longford's classic biography won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when it was first published in 1964. The author's grasp of the era's politics, and her understanding… Read more about this item

William Morrow, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Lavishly illustrated with never-before-seen photos and personal material from Diana Vreeland's private collection, here is the first and only biography of the legendary 20th-century fashion editor. 308 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography; United States; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN:… Read more about this item

Liveright Publishing Corporation, London, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. In the course of writing Venice, her 1961 classic, Jan Morris became fascinated by the historical presence of a sometimes-overlooked Venetian painter. Nowadays the name of Vittore Carpaccio (1460–1520) suggests raw beef, but to Morris it conveyed far more profound meanings. Thus began a… Read more about this item