Arthur Boyd : A Life by Darleen Bungey
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Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself - enigmatic, inarticulate, modest - has remained in the shadows until now. Based on over six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Darleen Bungey swe ...Show more
Samuel Johnson : A Biography by Peter Martin
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Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigous memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson is one of the greatest figures of English Literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after ...Show more
Never Say Die (Reprint Edition) Chris O'Brien by Chris O'Brien
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How a grim diagnosis transformed the life of one of Australia's top cancer specialists. It was a cruel twist of fate: in November 2006 Chris O'Brien, one of the country's leading head and neck cancer surgeons, was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive and almost inevitably lethal form of ...Show more
The Letters of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
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Category: General | Series: Diaries, Letters and Essays
With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy, brought him into close contact with the great, the good an ...Show more
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
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In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm of h ...Show more
Bambi Vs Godzilla by David Mamet
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In BAMBI VS. GODZILLA, David Mamet, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, gives us an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a film-maker who has always played the game his own way. Who really reads scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a pers ...Show more
The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter
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From the burning of Byrons memoirs, Jane Austens clipped businesslike manner, and the lucrative controversy caused by the publication ofDarwinOrigin of Species, through to the discovery of the new young poet John Betjeman, the name John Murray has for more than two hundred years been synonymous with cha ...Show more
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
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Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage dur ...Show more
Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox
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Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and Lady of the Bedchamber to Katherine Howard, whom she followed to the scaffold in 1542. Hers is a life of extraordinary drama as a witness to and participant in the greatest events of Henry's reign. She arrived at court as a teenager when Katherine of Ar ...Show more
Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall
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AWARDED SPECIAL JURY MENTION AT THE BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM AND BOOK FESTIVAL 2007 "The day I summitted Mount Everest was the day I died" Lincoln Hall set off for Everest in early May 2006. Five weeks after reaching Base Camp in Tibet, he began his push for the summit. After three days of climbing higher in ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (2008 Samuel Johnson Prize) by Kate Summerscale
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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more