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The Dressmaker's Daughter
By Kate Llewellyn
ISBN: 9780732286842
This candid account traces Llewellyn's life from her earliest days through to her nursing training, her marriage, life in Bohemian Adelaide in the 60s and 70s, and the beginning of her life as a writer.
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RRP: $32.99
Price: $29.69
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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MItfords
By Charlotte Mosley
ISBN: 9781841157900
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Spanning the twentieth century, these magically vivid lette
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RRP: $59.99
Price: $53.99
Delivery: 7-10 Days
Type: Hardback Book
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Unstill Life
By Judith Pugh
ISBN: 9781741754773
Judith and Clifton Pugh met in 1970. He was a major painter she had just joined the Australian Labor Party. Their decade together was a heady mix of painting, policy and pleasure that reflected the changing face of Australian society. But there was a darker side to this successful partnership.
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RRP: $32.95
Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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Heath Ledger : His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death
By John McShane
ISBN: 9781844546336
Young, cocksure, handsome and absurdly talented, Australian actor Heath Ledger shot to prominence with his first Hollywood film "10 Things I Hate About You": and a star was born.With huge charisma and smouldering looks lighting up the screen in a series of subsequent films, Heath was soon establishe
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RRP: $22.95
Price: $22.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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Home
By Julie Andrews
ISBN: 9780297844914
Julie Andrews' life is a fairy tale. Born of theatrical parents in Surrey she was appearing on stage as a child singer in music hall before she was ten. She went to drama schools and when only eighteen made her West End debut. At the age of nineteen she was on Broadway in THE BOYFRIEND. At twenty-on
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RRP: $35.00
Price: $35.00
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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The Sum of Our Days
By Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780007269501
A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childho
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RRP: $33.00
Price: $33.00
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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Life in His Hands
By Susan Wyndham
ISBN: 9781405038379
Charlie Teo is one of Australia's most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. This title is the remarkable true story of a medical maverick and one of his most high-profile and tragic cases.
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RRP: $32.95
Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
Type: Hardback Book
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Bad Girls and Wicked Women
By Jan Stradling
ISBN: 9781741960433
This historic survey of 22 of the most ruthless, ambitious women of all time will inspire readers at the same time as it shocks. These are sassy, brilliant, magnetic, cunning, and tough-as-nails women who defied the social mores of their eras. Each gripping story speaks for itself: from Queen Mary I
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RRP: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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La Vie Parisienne
By Janelle McCulloch
ISBN: 9781741960822
After an ill-fated affair with the Queen Mother's equerry, a young London-based Australian journalist, Janelle McCulloch, runs away to Paris to restore her pride. The city leaves an indelible print, and she returns many years later to live there for a year. McCulloch is an acute observer of Parisian
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RRP: $29.95
Price: $29.95
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The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
By Virginia Lloyd
ISBN: 9780702236815
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement is a love story that chronicles Virginia's renovation of the house she shared with her husband, John, and the ways in which that process paralleled her own emotional 'renovation' in the year after his death. The house had a chronic rising damp problem and,
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RRP: $32.95
Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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Mary
By Jim Korner, Jim Lyngvild & Vibeke Sybrandt
ISBN: 9780670072026
This is a beautifully illustrative record of Mary's journey from Tasmanian girl to the future queen of Denmark and international style icon, with special focus on her approach to fashion.
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RRP: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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Maalika
By Valerie Browning & John Little
ISBN: 9781405038454
In 1973, Valerie Browning, a young Sydney nurse, volunteered to go to Ethiopia to help the victims of a devastating famine. She had little conception of Africa or Africans, and yet the continent and its people would become the guiding force of her life. Galvanised by the suffering she witnessed in E
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RRP: $32.95
Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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A Geisha's Journey
By Komomo
ISBN: 9784770030672
This is the story of a contemporary Japanese teenager who, in a search for an identity, became fascinated with the world of geisha, and discovered in herself the will and the commitment to embark on the many years of apprenticeship necessary to become one. It is also the story of a young Japanese p
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RRP: $42.95
Price: $42.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
Type: Hardback Book
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The Piazzas of Florence
By Lisa McGarry
ISBN: 9781741960891
Artist, Lisa McGarry has captured the essence of her adopted city Florence through an intimate exploration of twelve of her favourite piazzas. McGarry's evocative narrative weaves together history, art, architecture and the colourful cast of characters she meets during her daily excursions around th
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RRP: $34.95
Price: $34.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan
By M. & C. Morton-Evans
ISBN: 9780731812851
This is the story of an extraordinary woman, once a household name but today largely forgotten. In her day, Ellis Rowan was greatly admired for her paintings of flowers and birds. She even beat Tom Roberts for gold at the 1888 Victorian Centennial Exhibition, causing an enormous stir in the artistic
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RRP: $34.95
Price: $34.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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The Glassblower of Murano
By Marina Fiorato
ISBN: 9781905636242
The Glassblower of Murano is a wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author. It tells a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to start again in Venice -
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RRP: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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That Summer in Sicily
By Marlena de Blasi
ISBN: 9781741752601
That Summer in Sicilyis the captivating story of a journey Marlena de Blasi and her husband Fernando took to the island of Sicily to research a new book of recipes from the region. One day, tired, hungry and frustrated, they are given directions to the Villa Donnafugata (literally: house of the esca
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RRP: $32.95
Price: $32.95
Delivery: 7-10 Days
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