Last Curtsey: The End of the English Debutante by Fiona MacCarthy
$24.95 AUD
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The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
$35.00 AUD
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Princess Diana stole the world's heart, but what was at the heart of her complex behaviour?Tina Brown penetrates Diana's world revealing Diana's tumultuous inner life as no one else has done before. She documents who was really to blame for Diana's untimely death. She reveals the extent of the Alfred Hi ...Show more
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
$19.95 AUD
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In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story. Dr Ebadi is a tireless voice for reform in her native Iran, where she argues for a new interpretation of Sharia law in harmony with vital human rights such ...Show more
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
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The award-winning and best-selling account of Raimond Gaita's father's life has been turned into a feature film, starring Eric Bana Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the ...Show more
A Russian Diary by Anna Politkovskaya
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A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, A Russian Diary is an unflinchi ...Show more
Bad Faith : A story of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil
$29.99 AUD
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"Bad Faith" tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government's and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. After the wa ...Show more
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland
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Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life. Wilfred Thes ...Show more
Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-and-white Ball by Deborah Davis
$22.95 AUD
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In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, and more. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings of the guests, this portrait of revelry at the ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism by Mary Dearborn
$27.99 AUD
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This new biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous, multi-talented art collector and personality. Great-granddaughter of Swiss immigrant Simon Guggenheim, and daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down on the Titanic, Peggy Guggenheim was an extremely controversial figure, censu ...Show more
My Lives by Edmund White
$24.95 AUD
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No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 195 ...Show more
Children of the Raj by Vyvyen Brendon
$26.95 AUD
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The shocking history of what the British in India did with their childrenVyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflic ...Show more