Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude
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Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, a brilliant writer and orator who was also an authoritarian organizer. He might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico in a vi ...Show more
Bess of Hardwick by David N. Durant
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Bess of Hardwick, daughter of a Derbyshire squire, not only married well but was a talented business woman who became one of the richest women in England. This biography gives a detailed account of her life in Tudor England.'
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts A Memoir by Neil White
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Neil White was once a man who lived by appearances - he owned expensive cars and a big house and worked at glossy magazines. When his bank balance couldn't keep up with his lifestyle, he started kiting - illegally depositing and drawing cheques between his two accounts. He got caught and was sent to pri ...Show more
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
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Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human - minutes after Neil Armstrong - to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind's greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions mor ...Show more
The Blue Hour : A Portrait of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini
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Jean Rhys, described by Al Alvarez as 'one of the finest British writers of this century', was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, never far from the edge, whose blazing talent rescu ...Show more
Stalin's Children : Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews
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On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and passionate affair. Decades later, a reporter in nineties Moscow, ...Show more
Cooking with Baz : Getting to Know my Dad by Sean Dooley
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A moving memoir about fathers and sons, filled with great characters, plenty of hilarity and some quiet tears.
Emergency - This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
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Combining wit and journalistic detail, Emergency follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island. Facing shady lawyers, cult leaders, crippling doubts, governmental corruption, and plane ...Show more
The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
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In 1914, in the canefields of northern New South Wales, the young men couldn't wait to set off for the adventure of war. The women coped as best as they could, raised the children, lived in fear of being the next to receive an official telegram. They grieved their dead, and came to learn that for return ...Show more
Sunshine on Sugar Hill by Angela Gilltrap
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From Bondi Beach to the backstreets of Harlem, Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York.From Bondi Beach to the backstreets of Harlem, Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York. In a story that even she ...Show more
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History by Joseph O'Neill
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A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, whose grandfathers - one Irish, one Turkish - were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill ...Show more
Crossing the Ditch: Two Mates, a Kayak, and the Conquest of the Tasman by James Castrission
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This is a gripping and inspirational story of the triumph of the human spirit with friendship at its heart. It tells the story of two mates, a kayak, and the conquest of the Tasman.