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Nearly 30 years ago, James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. ... More

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'In the closing pages of the last volume, I got married. The ceremony marked a rare outbreak of normality in my life. It was symbolized by my ... More

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After Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June comes the next instalment in the ongoing saga that is Clive James's life. ... More

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In the first volume of 'Unreliable Memoirs', we said farewell to our hero as he set sail from Sydney Harbour, bound for London, fame and fortune. ... More

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This work is the engrossing chronicle of Keneally's pursuit of Oskar Schindler--one of history's most fascinating and paradoxical heroes. The author ... More

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When London began to swing in the early sixties Clive James was there. He was also broke. Arriving in London from Sydney, he resolved to engage ... More

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'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.' In the ... More

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The return of a classic: This biography of the young James Joyce is "a remarkable exposition of the relationship between a famous man and [his] ... More

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In this remarkable self-portrait, Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he ... More

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This second memoir by James Liddy (The Doctor's House, 2004) takes a different perspective, exploring the world of Liddy's parents and their friends ... More

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A pound of paper--the weight, more or less, of a book--is the peg on which book collector extraordinaire John Baxter hangs each charming episode of ... More

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Enter a world of gimlet-eyed, detail-crazed obsessives in this totally addictive memoir about book collecting. By the 1960s, a copy of Graham Greene ... More

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Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award. A nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s, mixed ... More

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This biography of Australian Parliamentarian Peter Andren tells the story of an intelligent and sensitive man who became a politician because he ... More

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Growing up in country Australia, and after years of below average school results, Jon Johanson was told by career advisers that he would achieve ... More

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"Home Stand" delivers a lyrical, thoughtful reflection of what it is to be an athlete--inside as well as outside the game--and how one man's love of ... More

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Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams was a member of the Aboriginal Stolen Generations. She was taken from her mother at birth and put into a home for white ... More

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In August 1948, 545 passengers boarded an overcrowded, clapped-out vessel in Marseilles to face an uncertain future in Australia and New Zealand. ... More

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The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally ... More

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A revealing memoir of human resilience in the face of nightmarish power.

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