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| Pollard, Jeannie.: Imogen / Jeannie Pollard .
Book Number: 40532
Mt Kuring-gai, NSW J. Pollard 2000 8vo softcover 196pp very good. Signed by author on ffl. Told over a period of sixty years from 1933 to 1993, this is a story of sisterly rivalry and reconciliation. It is also a story of self-discovery. Through glimpses into the past life of sister, Imogen and Julia, we see scenes from Liverpool in the Great Depression and later during the bombing of WWII. We travel to Ireland and many American states. And through these glimpses, we discover, with Imogen, what made her the person she became.
Keywords: Imogen / Jeannie Pollard Pollard Jeannie
Price: $25.00 |
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| Tyrrel, Rebecca: Camilla: An Intimate Portrait
Book Number: 40537
Short Books May 1, 2004 8vo softcover 288pp very good. Rebecca Tyrrel paints a vivid picture of the life of Camilla Parker Bowles-jolly, horsey, laid-back Camilla, loyal friend, loving mother, whose "open" county marriage was no one's business until it emerged that the other man in it was the heir to the throne. To her critics, Camilla will always be a manipulative marriage breaker, the woman who took on the "People's Princess" and won. But if nothing else, she is constant-a dignified consort, who has endured years of public vilification and never answered back. With the help of friends and county contacts, royal reporters and palace insiders, Tyrrel goes behind the scenes of an extraordinary love story-a story of romance and tragedy, which has rocked the monarchy to its foundations and yet doggedly prevailed.
Keywords: Camilla An Intimate Portrait Tyrrel Rebecca
Price: $9.00 |
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| Mitford, Nancy: The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 195273
Book Number: 40607
Frances Lincoln 2004 8vo hardcover 191pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Nancy Mitford's letters to Heywood Hill advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books, while seeking advice about new titles to read.
Keywords: mitford bookselling The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 195273 Mitford Nancy
Price: $25.00 |
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| Gordon, Colin: Beyond the Looking Glass
Book Number: 40581
Hodder 1982 4to hardcover 255pp index, b/w illus. very good, light foxing / very good d/w.
Keywords: lewis carrol alice wonderland Looking Glass Gordon Colin
Price: $16.50 |
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| Moustafine, Mara: Secrets and Spies - The Harbin Files
Book Number: 40647
Random House January 2002 8vo softcover 468pp very good. Index. With the heartbreaking intimacy of a family album, Secrets and Spies unravels the complex historical forces which shaped a family's destiny. Jewish
Harbin in north China was once the heart of a vibrant Russian community. But by the mid-1930s, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria drove many Russians to seek refuge elsewhere. For the thousands who returned to their motherland in the Soviet Union, it was a bitter homecoming. At the height of Stalin's purges, they were arrested as Japanese spies. Some were shot, others sent to labour camps, few survived. Among them were members of the author's family.
Driven by curiosity and armed with chutzpah, Mara Moustafine fronted up at the headquarters of the former KGB in post-Soviet Moscow and asked for help to discover what had happened. She got more than she bargained for. The family's secret police files, retrieved from archives at opposite ends of Russia, revealed startling secrets about their lives in turbulent years in China and the Soviet Union. What was fact? What was fiction?
Mara Moustafine was born in Harbin, China, into a family with Jewish, Russian and Tatar roots and come to Sydney as a child in 1959. Bilingual in Russian and English, Mara completed a Masters in International Relations at the Australian National University. She has worked as a diplomat, intelligence analyst, journalist and a senior business executive in Australia and Asia. This is her first book.
Keywords: Secrets and Spies Moustafine Mara
Price: $24.00 |
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| Mankowitz, Wolf: Dickens of London
Book Number: 40627
Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1976 8vo hardcover 252pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / good- chipped d/w.
Keywords: Dickens of London Mankowitz Wolf
Price: $15.00 |
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| Taylor, Roberta: Too Many Mothers - A Memior of an East End childhood
Book Number: 40754
Atlantic Books London 2002 8vo softcover 245pp very good. Roberta Taylor played Irene Raymond on EastEnders and Gina Gold in The Bill. This is Roberta's story of growing up in the East End of London.
Keywords: Too Many Mothers Taylor Roberta
Price: $14.00 |
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| Pelzer, Dave: The Privilege of Youth
Book Number: 40774
Penguin 2005 8vo. Softcover. 240pp. Very good. As a teenager at highschool Dave Pelzer thought he had finally escaped the abuse that had wrecked his childhood – but he couldn't have been more wrong. Bullied physically at school and suffering emotional trauma as his foster family imploded around him, Dave found that adolescence was just as tough as childhood. But this time there were others to whom he could reach out – father figures who would listen patiently to his problems and offer sound advice, and friends who helped him learn that life could also be about joy as well as pain.
Dave's extraordinary memoir of how the troubled youth became a man is compassionate and brave, a tale of hope and inspiration to a new generation.
Keywords: child abuse, bullying, forster families, troubled youth
Price: $12.00 |
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| Cook, Wendy E.: So Farewell Then - The untold life of Peter Cook
Book Number: 40776
Harper April 2, 2007 8vo softcover 400pp very good. After 30 years of silence, Wendy Cook, his first wife, talks openly of the years of chaos, hedonism, laughter and success that they shared together.
Keywords: So Farewell Then Cook Wendy E
Price: $16.00 |
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| DRAKE, Mary:: THE TREES WERE GREEN Memories of Growing Up After the Great War
Book Number: 40800
Sydney. Hale & Iremonger. 1984. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Illustrated. Author recalls her childhood in Sydney, in particular Mosman and Balmoral.very good, some foxing. / very good d/w/
Keywords: Sydney, depression, NSW, australia
Price: $12.00 |
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