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The Well at the World's End
Author: A. J. Mackinnon
ISBN: 9781863954761
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When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World's End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly ('It would feel like cheating'), he sets out with a rucksack, some fireworks and a map of the world and trusts chance to take care of the rest. By land and by sea, by train, truck, horse and yacht, he makes his way across the globe ,and through a seri ...
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The Family File
Author: Mark Aarons
ISBN: 9781863954815
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Mark Aarons comes from Australia's leading activist family: his father, uncle, grandmother and grandfather were leaders of the Communist Party of Australia. As a result, the Aarons were the most monitored family in Australian history.
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The Passage
Author: Justin Cronin
ISBN: 9780752897851
Format: Paperback Book
An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil that is destined to be a global bestseller
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The World According to Monsanto
Author: Marie-Monique Robin
ISBN: 9781876756833
Format: Paperback Book
Winner of the Rachel Carson Prize and the result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant--the world's leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)--and its new and dubious 'green' face and its problematic PCB and Agent Orange soaked past. Robin reports that, following its lo ...
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After America
Author: John Birmingham
ISBN: 9781405039413
Format: Paperback Book
Four years after an inexplicable wave of energy decimated the American mainland, and then just as inexplicably disappeared a year later, US President James Kipper is no closer to explaining the catastrophe to the traumatised survivors. In a decaying New York City, an assassination attempt on the President prompts the suspicion that the looters overrunning Manhattan may be more organised and sinister than previously thought. Working on a farm in Texas to earn his citizenship, Miguel Pieraro belie ...
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Possessing the Dead
Author: Helen MacDonald
ISBN: 9780522857351
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In 1832, after a series of calculated murders in Edinburgh and London, British parliamentarians passed a new law to regulate how the country's medical schools could lawfully obtain bodies for dissection. This book explores what happened in the wake of the Anatomy Act in Britain and Australia.
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Midnight in a Perfect Life
Author: Michael Collins
ISBN: 9780297859895
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From the Booker shortlisted author of The Keepers of Truth. A writers journey towards fatherhood throws up shadows from his past.
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The News Where You Are
Author: Catherine O'Flynn
ISBN: 9780670918553
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Set in Birmingham, The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit and run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences while having to report endless local news stories of holes opening ...
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UTS Writers' Anthology 2010
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ISBN: 9781921556111
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The prestigious writing program at the University of Technology, Sydney celebrates this year's most exceptional talent in its 24th anthology.
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Fatal Tango
Author: Wolfram Fleischhauer
ISBN: 9780330424288
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When Giulietta Battin, ballerina at the conservative Berlin opera, falls in love with the dashing Argentinean tango champion, Damian Alsina, she unwittingly embarks on an intoxicating but dangerous journey. Having fled his country's political horrors, Damian has found sanctuary in Europe. But is he there for another reason? He is connected to Giulietta's powerful politician father - but neither man will tell her the truth of their association. When Damian bizarrely starts sabotaging his own tang ...
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Every Man in This Village is a Liar
Author: Megan Stack
ISBN: 9781921640445
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Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Megan Stack was 24 when the attacks of September 11 occurred and she was sent to chronicle the war in Afghanistan. She spent the next decade of her life in the Middle East, covering the far-flung and ever morphing 'war on terror'. Stack has roamed every Arab country from Israel to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen: war zones where politics, strategy, finance, and propaganda seep one into the other, and being a young woman is no asset. Every Ma ...
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The Temptress
Author: Paul Spicer
ISBN: 9781847377821
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A beautifully written biography of Alice, Countess de Janze, the beguiling and volatile temptress of Kenya's 'White Mischief' set of the 1940s.
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House of Hits
Author: Jane Albert
ISBN: 9781740668811
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Few, if any, of AC/DCss fans would have any idea that the band's unmistakeable brand of raucous, hardcore rock was delivered to the world via a small Australian family music publishing business, J. Albert & Son. House of Hits chronicles the journey from a small family business to an Australian music stalwart.
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Indelible Ink
Author: Fiona McGregor
ISBN: 9781921215964
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Marie King is a 59-year-old divorcée from Sydney's affluent north shore. Having devoted her rather conventional life to looking after her husband and three children — who have now all departed the family home — she is experiencing something of an identity crisis, especially as she must now sell the family home and thus lose her beloved garden. On a folly she gets a tattoo. Marie forges a friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys, who introduces her to an alternative side of Sydney from that to wh ...
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Moral Combat
Author: Michael Burleigh
ISBN: 9780007195763
Format: Hardback Book
From pre-eminent historian Michael Burleigh comes a brilliant new examination of the Second World War and a magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and bestselling THE THIRD REICH.
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