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Louis Nowra

The face of Kings Cross is changing: gone is the character that once made The Cross what it was, gone is the infamous Pink Pussy Cat Club, with many of...

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Paul Barry

There’s not a lot of sex in this book but there are a lot of lies which makes for more than interesting reading on one of the most, shall we...

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Alexandra Voulgari

A young Alexandra immigrated with her family to Australia from Greece for a better life. Like all immigrant children, Alexandra and her brother grew up adopting the language and culture...

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Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron has offered us a raw and deeply personal look into some of the many deciding moments that have gone into making up the person she now knows as...

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Sophie Fontanel

There is just one word that sums up this memoir by Sophie Fontanel and that is LIBERATING – Just simply that – Liberating in the fullest and ripest sense of...

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Ian Thorpe and Robert Wainwright

An interesting read into the life of a professional swimmer.  The hardships, challenges and sheer strength of will required. This biography takes you along with Ian in his battle to...

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Jack Mercer

Hard Times is a true and ingenious travel tale all the better for having been hidden in box for more than 50 years. Written by Jack Mercer over many years...

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Meshel Laurie

Memoirs are strange fruit indeed and always one wonders when memoirs are written by someone who has lived a comparatively short time, as in 40 years more or less. This...

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Meshel Laurie

Memoirs are strange fruit indeed and always one wonders when memoirs are written by someone who has lived a comparatively short time, as in 40 years more or less. This...

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Nadia Wheatley Illus: Ken Searle

“In the beginning there was the Law and the law was held in the balance of the land.” And so begins perhaps the only comprehensive collection of stories about the...

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Gwen Rankin

L. Bernard Shaw: who was he and what part has he had to play in the history of Australian Art Collections?  You may well ask as the title – the...