‎Biographie‎

‎Bill Bryson‎

‎Shakespeare : The World as a Stage Eminent Lives‎

‎Harper Collins UK 2007. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Hardcover. 200 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins UK 2007. Reprint. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are lightly browned. . Previous owner's name in ink. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery at the age of six of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly become invisible shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman. Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his deeply funny new memoir he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was and the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time when almost everything was good for you including DDT cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. But in Bryson's hands it becomes everyone's story one that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been young. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780007197897. Inventory No: 24070056. 9780007197897 Harper Collins hardcover‎

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‎Wendy Davis‎

‎Don't Make a Fuss : It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer‎

‎Freemantle Press Australia 2022. Trade Paperback. Fine. Trade Paperback. 210 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Freemantle Press Australia 2022. CONDITION: This book is in fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Wendy Davis was attacked by the Claremont Serial Killer and survived. This is her story. In 2020 after the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of two of the Claremont Serial Killings a series of unsolved murders that had haunted the state since the mid-1990s. But before he went to trial before he started killing Edwards violently assaulted a social worker while he was working on the telephone system at Hollywood Hospital. Not only did Edwards keep his job at Telstra but he was convicted only of common assault for the attack a minor charge that left him off the police radar during their desperate hunt for the sexual predator responsible for the Claremont murders. Begun as way to deal with the resurgence of trauma after Edwards' arrest this memoir looks at the pressure on women to minimise and excuse certain behaviours in others and demonstrates the devastating consequences of not making a fuss. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; True Crime. ISBN/EAN: 9781760991227. Inventory No: 24070070. 9781760991227 Freemantle Press paperback‎

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‎Michael Gilchrist‎

‎Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom‎

‎Freedom Publishing Australia 2004. Second Edition. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 312 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Freedom Publishing Australia 2004. Second Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The life and wit of Archbishop Daniel Mannix the most influential and controversial clergyman in Australian history is captured in this biography. With a focus on his spiritual leadership and major areas of public engagement from World War I conscription campaigns and Irish nationalism to sectarianism and the famous Labour Party split of the 1950s this revised and updated biography is also filled with examples of the Archbishop's unforgettably insightful comments. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 095786826X. ISBN/EAN: 9780957868267. Inventory No: 24070185. 9780957868267 Freedom Publishing paperback‎

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‎Francis Selwyn‎

‎Hitler's Englishman : The Crime of Lord Haw-Haw‎

‎Penguin UK 1993. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 224 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin UK 1993. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has minor lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; True Crime. ISBN: 0140148337. ISBN/EAN: 9780140148336. Inventory No: 24070189. 9780140148336 Penguin paperback‎

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‎Gerald L. Geison‎

‎Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology : The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society‎

‎Princeton University Press USA 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 401 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Princeton University Press USA 1978. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Spine has slight fading. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. . Previous owner's name ink-stamped with pen scribble under. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0691081972. ISBN/EAN: 9780691081977. Inventory No: 24070128. 9780691081977 Princeton University Press hardcover‎

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‎John Miller‎

‎Judi Dench : With a Crack in Her Voice‎

‎Orion UK 2004. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 354 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion UK 2004. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Whether it is her sunny temperament her gift of laughter her wide-ranging abilities or all three Judi Dench is without doubt a star. Shortlisted for a 1998 Oscar for her performance as Queen Victoria in MRS BROWN she then won one for her role as Queen Elizabeth in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. Judi Dench is widely loved and not only among the theatrical profession. Her long-running appearance opposite Geoffrey Palmer in the TV situation comedy AS TIME GOES BY has run to four series and gained her a TV TIMES readers' award as 'the actress we most wish see more often on television'. She juggles the National Theatre a sell-out season in Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and David Hare's AMY'S VIEW with TV and films she is now established as 'M' in the latest James Bond series. Since the paperback edition was published John Miller has written a new chapter bringing what is fast becoming a classic biography completely up-to-date. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0752848941. ISBN/EAN: 9780752848945. Inventory No: 24090006. 9780752848945 Orion paperback‎

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‎John & Morrell Jill McCarthy‎

‎Some Other Rainbow : Their Own Story‎

‎Bantam 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover. 524 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bantam 1993. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has mild foxing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate bumping moderate wear and moderate chips and/or tears. . Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Base of back board has indents where it has been knocked about. ABOUT THIS BOOK: On 17 April 1986 a British television journalist was kidnapped in Beirut. His name was John McCarthy and he was to remain a hostage for the next five years. During those years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved from family friends and perhaps above all from Jill Morrell the girl he was going to marry. For five years John McCarthy had to endure the deprivation - both physical and psychological - of captivity; the filth and the squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation and repeated self-examination; the pain of ignorance of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive. For Jill Morrell the five years of John's captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock and disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken and that her life was changed irrevocably that all their plans had been shattered. But even as she began to pick up the threads of her life she was refusing to give up hope. For five years she battled with the mandarins of the Foreign Office; she and a group of friends launched the Friends of John McCarthy and worked ceaselessly on the behalf of all the British hostages in the Middle East until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John McCarthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0593027299. ISBN/EAN: 9780593027295. Inventory No: 24080193. 9780593027295 Bantam hardcover‎

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‎Mary Durack‎

‎Kings in Grass Castles‎

‎Corgi UK 1986. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 414 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Corgi UK 1986. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. The pages of the picture section are partially detached from the binding. ABOUT THIS BOOK: When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853 he was to found a dynasty of pioneers and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. His grand-daughter Mary Durack with a profound sense of family history has rebuilt the saga of the Duracks a saga that is the story of Australia itself huge pioneering and tremendous in concept. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0552110558. ISBN/EAN: 9780552110556. Inventory No: 24080069. 9780552110556 Corgi paperback‎

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‎Susi Prescott‎

‎Where Hummingbirds Dance‎

‎Xoum Australia 2017. First Edition. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 319 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Xoum Australia 2017. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Remnants of sticker on back cover. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Susi Prescott had it all. A large busy family a school teaching job she loved a home on Sydney s leafy North Shore. But with the sudden demise of her thirty-year marriage her world crumbles. To the surprise of everyone especially herself Susi makes a momentous decision. She packs up her former life and moves to the city of Arequipa in Peru where she starts working at Colegio Elohim a struggling school at the foot of the Andes. She plans to reinvent herself to do some good to heal. Arequipa teases with contrasts: colonial elegance ringed by sprawling slums; worldly affluence alongside grinding poverty; intellectuals decrying corruption and sexism; while the joy of song and dance transcends all barriers. Susi learns valuable lessons about hardship and injustice; about turning disaster into opportunity; about the nature of conflict and forgiveness. She may even learn how to fall in love again . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781925143355. Inventory No: 24040209. 9781925143355 Xoum paperback‎

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‎Don Bradman‎

‎Farewell to Cricket‎

‎Hodder & Stoughton London 1952. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 320 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder & Stoughton London 1952. Third Printing. CONDITION: This book is in fair condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have considerable soiling. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sir Donald Bradman made his international debut 66 years ago for New South Wales against the Marylebone Cricket Club. This is his account of his playing career with a selection of historical photographs and a complete record of his scores from 1927 to 1949. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Sports & Pastimes. Inventory No: 24040172. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover‎

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‎John Buchan‎

‎Oliver Cromwell‎

‎Reprint Society London 1941. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 459 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Reprint Society London 1941. Book Club Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. Some pencil notes on front end page. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 24040311. Reprint Society hardcover‎

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‎John Buchan‎

‎The Marquis of Montrose‎

‎Prion UK 1999. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Good ex-library. Medium Trade Paperback. 263 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Prion UK 1999. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in good ex-library condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks stamps stickers. Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are moderately bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the biography of the military leader the Marquis of Montrose who was a successful commander of the Scottish royalist forces during the war with the Covenanters contemporaneous with the English Civil War. This book reveals Montrose's military skills in descriptions of his battles and also discusses his character. Cardinal de Retz called him the equal of a hero of antiquity a Hector a Roland a Lancelot. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. ISBN: 185375224X. ISBN/EAN: 9781853752247. Inventory No: 24040287. 9781853752247 Prion paperback‎

Référence libraire : 24040287 ISBN : 185375224X 9781853752247

‎Martin Spitzer‎

‎Storm over Tatra‎

‎Self published Australia 1989. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. 247 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Self published Australia 1989. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the context of an autobiography the author describes some facets of the life of a generation within an assimilated Jewish community in Slovakia. The narrative a true story is both of a general and specifically Jewish interest. The general reader will follow the tensions and adventures of the War-time escape of the author from Slovakia to England to join the Army and fight against the evil of Nazism. For the reader interested in the recent Jewish history the book assumes an added dimension: it is not only a testimony of the life and thoughts of a generation which in a few years will be extinct but also it belies the frequently expressed notion that the Jews passively accepted the miseries of their persecution which culminated in the tragedy of the Holocaust. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0731681282. ISBN/EAN: 9780731681280. Inventory No: 24060064. 9780731681280 Self published paperback‎

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‎Christina & Browne, Gretta Curran Noble‎

‎Mama Tina : The Inspiring Sequel To Bridge Across My Sorrows‎

‎John Murray UK 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Author. Trade Paperback. 236 pages. Inscribed by Author. PUBLISHING DETAILS: John Murray UK 1998. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine has mild fading. . Pages are reasonably tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sequel to BRIDGE ACROSS MY SORROWS. Continuing the tale of Christina Noble and her Foundation and what has been achieved in Saigon. In 1989 Nobel opened the Christina Noble Children's Foundation to provide a haven of food beds medical aid and schooling for the street children of Saigon. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0719556384. ISBN/EAN: 9780719556388. Inventory No: 24060072. 9780719556388 John Murray paperback‎

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‎Bram Connolly‎

‎The Commando Way : A Special Forces Commander's Lessons For Life Leadership And Success‎

‎Allen & Unwin Australia 2020. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 240 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin Australia 2020. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: To be a good leader you first have to be a good follower but to be a great leader you have to remember that being a good follower wasn't easy. Imagine having access to the planning training and motivational secrets of Australia's most elite military operators; then imagine being able to adapt what they know to your own everyday life. This is what Bram Connolly gives us in this smart surprising optimistic and autobiographical manual for resilience personal leadership and success. In sharing the tedium of training as a raw recruit and taking us into the pitch of battle during some of the toughest fighting in Afghanistan Bram Connolly reminds us among other things that it is okay to be bored that laziness can quickly become a habit that there are advantages in being scared and that it's fine to let go. Clear-headed honest and self-deprecating The Commando Way offers powerful lessons that can be used in all aspects of life no matter who you are. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Self Help & Motivation. ISBN/EAN: 9781760528638. Inventory No: 24060073. 9781760528638 Allen & Unwin paperback‎

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‎Dennis Lillee‎

‎Dennis Lillee‎

‎Affirm Press Australia 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. 286 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Affirm Press Australia 2016. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Lill-ee! Lill-ee! Lill-ee!' It was the chant that echoed around Australian cricket grounds throughout the 1970s and 80s and it still resonates today. Few sportsmen have been as loved by crowds or feared by opponents as the legendary fast bowler Dennis Lillee. Renowned for his showmanship skill and never-say-die attitude Lillee was the poster boy for the most colourful era of Australian cricket. It wasn't just batsmen that Lillee had in his sights during his brilliant recordbreaking career; when he worked with Kerry Packer to form the breakaway World Series Cricket it rocked the cricket establishment to its core. Even now Lillee continues to make headlines: whether it's in the line of coaching fast bowlers or defending his beloved WACA stadium in Perth. This is the illustrated autobiography of an incredible Australian - a shy puny boy from Perth who had to wear corrective boots to stop from falling over but who went on to become the most feared fast bowler in the world. With contributions from a who's who of Australian and international cricketers including Viv Richards Mitchell Johnson Rod Marsh Ian Chappell Ian Botham Adam Gilchrist Greg Chappell Jeff Thomson Clive Lloyd Michael Holding Brett Lee David Gower and many more. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Sports & Pastimes. ISBN/EAN: 9781925475210. Inventory No: 24050160. 9781925475210 Affirm Press hardcover‎

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‎Alan Clayson‎

‎George Harrison‎

‎Sanctuary UK 2003. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 415 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Sanctuary UK 2003. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1860744893. ISBN/EAN: 9781860744891. Inventory No: 24060001. 9781860744891 Sanctuary paperback‎

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‎C. D. Coulthard-Clark‎

‎A Heritage of Spirit : A Biography of Major-general Sir William Throsby Bridges‎

‎Melbourne University Press Australia 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 220 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Melbourne University Press Australia 1979. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are lightly tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0522841708. ISBN/EAN: 9780522841701. Inventory No: 24050180. 9780522841701 Melbourne University Press hardcover‎

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‎Christina Hindhaugh‎

‎It Wasn't Meant to be Easy : Tamie Fraser in Canberra‎

‎Lothian Australia 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed and signed by by Tamie Fraser. Hardcover. 192 pages. Inscribed and signed by by Tamie Fraser. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Lothian Australia 1986. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have moderate wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Memoirs of a politician's wife in Australia. Includes a photo section. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0850912644. ISBN/EAN: 9780850912647. Inventory No: 24060068. 9780850912647 Lothian hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 24060068 ISBN : 0850912644 9780850912647

‎Bill Dedman‎

‎Empty Mansions : The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World's Greatest Fortunes‎

‎Atlantic Books UK 2013. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 456 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Atlantic Books UK 2013. CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Edges of pages are slightly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. Previous owner's initials in ink. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark a woman so secretive that at the time of her death at age 104 no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California New York and Connecticut why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room despite being in excellent health Why were her valuables being sold off Was she in control of her fortune or controlled by those managing her money Huguette Clark was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day a controversial senator railroad builder and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir a world-renowned Stradivarius violin a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father her publicity-shy mother her star-crossed sister her French boyfriend her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette's copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. Show less Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781782394761. Inventory No: 24060150. 9781782394761 Atlantic Books paperback‎

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‎Elaine Lewis‎

‎Left Bank Waltz : The Australian Bookshop in Paris‎

‎Vintage Australia 2006. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. 342 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage Australia 2006. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. ABOUT THIS BOOK: At a time in her life when friends were retiring and spending time with their grandchildren a night out in Paris while she visited her musician son inspired Elaine Lewis to dream of a daring venture in this most enchanting of cities. Her vision was more than just fanciful. After doing the necessary research and groundwork Elaine packed her bags and left Australia to open on the Left Bank the first Australian bookshop in central Paris. Full of incredible energy and enthusiasm and with the help of locals and visiting Australians she created her shop in the heart of the St-Germain-des-Pr‚s literary quarter. Situated just around the corner from Notre Dame her cosy literary haven quickly became an important cultural centre and a home away from home for Australian writers and artists in Paris. Writers who were visitors at the bookshop included David Malouf Helen Garner Nikki Gemmell and Nick Earls. Elaine hosted events book readings and encouraged an exchange of ideas and a love of literature as well as midnight swims in the Seine! But when some bumbling and nasty French bureaucrats threatened to close down the shop Elaine and her many staunch supporters were faced with a battle against the establishment that quickly became stranger than fiction . 'Left Bank Waltz' is the spirited story of an Australian woman's courageous decision to follow a dream - and in the process bring great pleasure and a sense of pride to many others. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1740513495. ISBN/EAN: 9781740513494. Inventory No: 24030127. 9781740513494 Vintage paperback‎

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‎Tom & Stamp, Cordelia Stamp‎

‎James Cook Maritime Scientist‎

‎Caedmon of Whitby UK 2001. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 159 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Caedmon of Whitby UK 2001. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book appears to be unread. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. ISBN: 0905355040. ISBN/EAN: 9780905355047. Inventory No: 24030371. 9780905355047 Caedmon of Whitby paperback‎

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‎Stasys Jameikis‎

‎Only Eleven Came Back : An Eyewitness Account of Survival‎

‎Baltic Research Foundation Australia 2017. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 167 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Baltic Research Foundation Australia 2017. CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: During the 1941 mass deportations by Russia 1.505 Lithuanian men were sent to the icy Arkhangelsk region in the Russian Arctic for forced labour. After thirteen years only 11 of those 1505 returned home to Lithuania. What happened to the rest That was one of the better-kept secrets of the 20th century while the global media remained silent. However the truth was always there. Stasys Jameikis one of the eleven survivors spent the rest of his life writing down his experiences. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780646968674. Inventory No: 24030303. 9780646968674 Baltic Research Foundation paperback‎

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‎Catherine Hamlin‎

‎The Hospital by the River : A Story of Hope‎

‎Macmillan Australia 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 308 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan Australia 2003. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. . Previous owner's name in ink. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Australian gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin arrived in Addis Ababa in 1959 to establish a midwifery school. Over 30 years later Catherine is still there running one of the world's most outstanding medical programs. Through this work thousands of Ethiopian women have returned to a normal existence after living as outcasts often for more than half their lives. These women endured obstructed labours. As a result of obstructed labour not only does the baby die but the woman's bladder vagina or rectum is torn. These tears are called fistulas and the result is a constant leaking from either the bladder or rectum into the vagina. Soiled and helpless the women are abandoned by their husbands and often left to beg or scavenge. The Hamlins dedicated their lives to pioneering new surgery and opening their own fistula hospital in 1974. Now Catherine writes about their extraordinary lives and the stories of hope and courage that surround their hospital. Her book is a testament to the power of healing and reveals the hidden suffering of millions of women in developing countries. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 073291082X. ISBN/EAN: 9780732910822. Inventory No: 24030353. 9780732910822 Macmillan paperback‎

Référence libraire : 24030353 ISBN : 073291082X 9780732910822

‎Oliver Sacks‎

‎On the Move: A Life‎

‎Picador UK 2015. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 397 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador UK 2015. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hailed as a medical classic and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug L-DOPA which caused them temporarily to awake from their decades-long slumber. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781447264057. Inventory No: 24030191. 9781447264057 Picador paperback‎

Référence libraire : 24030191 ISBN : 1447264053 9781447264057