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City Boy
Author: Edmund White
ISBN: 9781408804438
Format: Paperback Book
A memoir of the sociel and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White.
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The Wild Things
Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9780241144220
Format: Hardback Book
Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. Driven by a series of pressures internal and external, Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant beasts reign.
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Ox-tales: Earth
Author: Oxfam
ISBN: 9781846682582
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"Ox-Tales" is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. 'Water' features stories by Esther Freud, David Park, Heri Kunzru, ZoA" Heller, Michel Faber, William Boyd, Joanna Trollope, Giles Foden and Michael Morpurgo, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind "Ox-Tales" is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in Water, conflict aid in Fire, and climate change in Ai ...
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Ox-tales: Air
Author: Oxfam
ISBN: 9781846682612
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"Ox-Tales" is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. 'Fire' features stories by Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John le Carre, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver and Jeanette Winterson, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind "Ox-Tales" is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in Water, conflict aid in Fire, ...
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Ox-tales: Fire
Author: Oxfam
ISBN: 9781846682599
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"Ox-Tales" is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. 'Fire' features stories by Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John le Carre, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver and Jeanette Winterson, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind "Ox-Tales" is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in Water, conflict aid in Fire, ...
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Captain's Diary 2009
Author: Ricky Ponting
ISBN: 9780732289577
Format: Paperback Book
No matter how packed the Australian cricket team's schedule-in 2008- 2009 it featured tours to India and South Africa as part of an almost constant stream of Tests, Twenty20 and one-day internationals - one series always stands out ... The Ashes. Here is the inside account of this memorable confrontation, the climax of another tought year.
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The Ashes 2009
Author: Gideon Haigh
ISBN: 9780522856569
Format: Paperback Book
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The Greatest
Author: Malcolm Knox
ISBN: 9781740668255
Format: Hardback Book
During 1993 to 2008 the Australian cricket team reached the highest of heights. It was an unprecedented run of success, even surpassing Don Bradman's Invincibles and the rampaging West Indies of the 1970s and '80s. The Greatest reflects on the golden age. It revisits the key moments, major players and personalities, and important influences.
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Bendable Learnings
Author: Don Watson
ISBN: 9781741669046
Format: Hardback Book
The language of modern management has triumphed, transforming clear, everyday communication into meaningless sludge. This language is deliberately obscure and falsely scientific; and those who use it have lost the very ability to think clearly. From Don Watson comes this new assortment of noxious management drivel and financial market blather.
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Wordwatching
Author: Julian Burnside
ISBN: 9781921640179
Format: Paperback Book
We live in a torrent of words - from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the best-selling Wordwatching , words are a source both of pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill. Some of these essays explore curiosities in odd corners of the language simply to remind us of the extraordinary richness of the English language. Other pieces use small matters of language to illustrate larger pro ...
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Wordcrime
Author: John Olsson
ISBN: 9781847062598
Format: Hardback Book
Tell kids not to worry. sorting my life out. be in touch to get some things. Instead of being a text message from one partner to another, this text message turns out to be crucial and chilling evidence in convicting the deceptive killer of a mother of two. Sent from her phone, after her death, a few tell tale signs give him away to a forensic linguist. Rarely is a crime committed without there being some evidence in the form of language. The book includes the much-discussed dispute between the p ...
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What the Dog Saw
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN: 9781846142949
Format: Paperback Book
Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. And in What the Dog Saw his adventurous curiosity is at full stretch, as he takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them. Whether it's criminal profiling or dog training, Gladwell always gives us a new perspective, and a glimpse into someone else's head.
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A Woman of Seville
Author: Sallie Muirden
ISBN: 9780732290597
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Paula Sanchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for The Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched over by the young painter Diego Velasquez. But Seville in 1616 is a dangerous place, and the eyes of the Inquisition are everywhere. In the evenings, Paula escapes the cares of life by skipping from rooftop to rooftop with the mysterious ladder man, who visits the Sevillians' balconies each evening at dusk. By day, Father Rastro encourages Paula to be ...
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She Lover of Death
Author: Boris Akunin
ISBN: 9780297855194
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Still a persona non grata in Moscow, ostracised by the authorities and shamed by the very qualified success of his last mission, Fandorin is back in his most underground enquiry to date. There's been rising consternation in fin-de-siecle Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only inve ...
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The Art of Osamu Tezuka
Author: Helen McCarthy & Katsuhiro Otomo
ISBN: 9781905814664
Format: Hardback Book
Osamu Tezuka has often been called the Walt Disney of Japan, but he was far more than that. Tezuka was Disney, Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Tim Burton and Carl Sagan, all rolled into one prolific package and he changed the face of Japanese culture forever. This book reveals what made a shy doctor one of the key figures of 20th Century pop culture.
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Strine
Author: Afferbeck Lauder
ISBN: 9781921520853
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Jimmy Governor - Blood on the Tracks
Author: Maurice Garland
ISBN: 9781921596018
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Defined as a half-caste, Jimmy Governor challenged the white man's Aboriginal stereotype of 1900 - he was highly intelligent, better educated than many of his white contemporaries, personable, a hard worker who didn't drink. Only the colour of his skin prevented any rise from the lowest rung of whte society.
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Valley
Author: Michael McKernan
ISBN: 9781741758382
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The Hacienda
Author: Peter Hook
ISBN: 9781847371355
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Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything h ...
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The Best Australian Poems 2009
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ISBN: 9781863954525
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The Best Australian Poetry 2009
Author: Duwell Martin Lea Bronwyn Wearne Alan
ISBN: 9780702237362
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After Fire - Clifton Pugh
Author: Sally Morrison
ISBN: 9781740666114
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Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1924, Clifton Pugh rose to prominence as a portrait and landscape painter, winning the Archibald Prize three times and an Order of Australia medal in 1985. After attending the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, and serving as a soldier in the Australian Imperial Forces in New Guinea and Japan during the 1940s, he moved to Cottles Bridge and established his bush property home called Dunmoochin. Here, his art was inspired by the natural beauty of the Australian ...
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