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Where Have You Been?
Author: Wendy James
ISBN: 9781921401466
Format: Paperback Book
A domestic thriller that takes the form of a classic imposter novel, but with a 21st century twist. A seemingly perfect family household is rocked by the reappearance of a sister they thought was long gone. Suspicions soon arise and no one is sure if she is who she claims to be.
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Nothing to Envy
Author: Barbara Demick
ISBN: 9780732286613
Format: Paperback Book
North Korea, run by a mad dictator, is cut off from the rest of the world, unknown and unknowable. But North Korea is also a place where ordinary people live, dream and learn to survive. Demick draws a powerful portrait of a bizzare society and the very real lives it affects.
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Trouble
Author: Kate Jennings
ISBN: 9781863954679
Format: Paperback Book
Collects Kate Jennings' best short work from the last four decades. She writes incisively about manners and morals, politics and economics, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider, and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. A fragmented autobiography and a record of remarkable times.
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The Authenticity Hoax
Author: Andrew Potter
ISBN: 9781921640490
Format: Paperback Book
We live in a world increasingly dominated by the fake, the prepackaged, the artificial: fast food, scripted reality TV shows, Facebook 'friends', and fraudulent memoirs. But people everywhere are demanding the exact opposite, heralding 'authenticity' as the cure for isolated individualism and shallow consumerism. Restaurants promote the authenticity of their cuisine, while condo developers promote authentic loft living and book reviewers regularly praise the authenticity of a new writer's voice. ...
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The Eternal Son
Author: Cristovao Tezza
ISBN: 9781921372988
Format: Paperback Book
Cristovao Tezza draws his readers into the mind of a father whose son, Felipe, is born with Down syndrome. From the initial shock of diagnosis, and his growing understanding of the world of hospitals and therapies, Tezza threads the story of his son's life with his own. An honest and insightful story, written by one of Brazil's foremost novelists.
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The Dead Republic
Author: Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9780224090100
Format: Paperback Book
At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyles trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, whos there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henrys story a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for Michael Collins, a republican legend into a film. He appoints him IRA consultant on his new film, The Quiet Ma ...
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The Debutante
Author: Kathleen Tessaro
ISBN: 9780007215409
Format: Paperback Book
Can the secrets of one woman's past change another woman's future? Cate is a gifted young artist who survives in New York by producing remarkable copies of Old Masters.She arrives in London to stay with her aunt Rachel who owns an auction house, determined to leave the pain of her past behind. Cate is sent to Devon with Rachel's colleague Jack to value the contents of Endsleigh, the grand Georgian home of a former socialite. But inside, its once elegant interiors are now worn with age and dust. ...
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Fear Factor
Author: Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle
ISBN: 9780330426213
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A collection of 20 unforgettable stories by well-known and emerging authors from Australia and the Indian subcontinent, the stories represent these writers' protests against the phenomenon of modern terror. They do not offer solutions. Instead, they lead readers along the hidden paths of an unfamiliar psychology to make their own discoveries.
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The Soldier's Song
Author: Alan Monaghan
ISBN: 9780230740860
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Dublin, 1914. As Ireland stands on the brink of political crisis, Europe plunges headlong into war. Among the thousands of Irishmen who volunteer to fight for the British Army is Stephen Ryan, a gifted young maths scholar. Sent to fight in Turkey, he looks forward to the great adventure, unaware of the growing unrest back home in Ireland.
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Southerly at Seventy
Author: Elizabeth McMahon
ISBN: 9781921556104
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This 70th anniversary issue includes stories and poetry on the passing of time, new inter-generational relationships, the anachronisms of middle age, on the image and memory, the press of the lived present.
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The Leakeys
Author: Mary Bowman-Kruhm
ISBN: 9781591027614
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Three generations of Leakeys have scratched in the baked, unfriendly soil of East Africa to unearth fossil evidence of the earliest humans and their ancient ancestors. This engrossing biography tells their story.
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The Gallipoli Letter
Author: Keith Murdoch
ISBN: 9781742373133
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In September 1915, Keith Murdoch, a young war journalist, wrote an 8000-word letter to the Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher. 'The Gallipoli Letter', as it came to be known, changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign. It is an inspiring document. It speaks directly to us about war, our history and the indomitable Australian spirit.
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Advice for Young People on Leaving Home:Social, Et
Author: Grace Lax
ISBN: 9780980637830
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On the Future of Conservatism
Author: Waleed Aly
ISBN: 9781863954662
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What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism? In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way. How did the Right in Australia end up in this place? How might it renew itself? This essay unravels the terms Right and Left, and discusses what a better conservatism might look like.
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The Anzac Book
Author: Australian War Memorial
ISBN: 9781742231341
Format: Hardback Book
Few books have ever been produced under such harsh conditions as The Anzac Book. Created by soldiers under enemy fire and in extreme hardship, the illustrations, stories, cartoons and poems were intended as a Christmas and New Year diversion for soldiers facing a harsh winter in the trenches. The Anzac Book became the finest 'trench publication' produced by soldiers during the Great War and was an instant bestseller when first released in 1916. This new edition includes a reproduction of the ori ...
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An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli
Author: Ellis Silas
ISBN: 9781877058912
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Signaller Ellis Silas of the 16th Battalion, Australian Imperial force, was the only artist to paint and sketch actual battle scenes showing Australian soldiers in action at Gallipoli. With his mates he went ashore at Anzac Cove in April 1915 and for the next month he witnessed the terrible carnage at Gallipoli whilst performing his duties as signaller in the thick of the fighting, until he was wounded and had to be taken by hospital ship back to Egypt. The words and sketches of Ellis Silas give ...
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What's Wrong with Anzac?
Author: Henry Reynolds & Marilyn Lake
ISBN: 9781742231518
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In recent years Anzac an idea as much as an actual army corps has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each year. Pilgrimages to Gallipoli, the Somme and Kokoda are commonplace and popular military history dominates the bestseller lists. Anzac has seemingly become a sacred, untouchable element of the nation. ...
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Stripping Bare the Body
Author: Mark Danner
ISBN: 9781863954327
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Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the world, Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of American power during the last quarter-century, as told by one of the world's leading writers, showing at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels.
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