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Carole Angier: Jean Rhys
Book Number: 49961
Viking 1990 8vo. Hardcover. Excellent copy in same d/w. Illustrated with b&w photo's.
Keywords: The Wide Sargasso Sea Angier, Carole Literature Fiction Jean Rhys Biography
Price: $30.00 |
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Hitchcock, Kevin.: Walk with me
Book Number: 50039
Milsons Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 1998 8vo hardcover 442pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Hitchcock Kevin TEN 10 Sydney (Television station) Employees Biography Physically handicapped Rehabilitation Australia Sp Walk with me Hitchcock Kevin
Price: $18.00 |
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Herrmann, Dorothy: Helen Keller: A Life
Book Number: 50286
University Of Chicago Press 1999 8vo softcover 394pp index, b/w illus. very good. Veteran biographer Herrmann paints a nuanced portrait of Keller's complex relationship with Sullivan, which included anger and resentment as well as devoted affection, and she vividly depicts the maddening constraints imposed by society's image of Keller as a perfect Victorian maiden, virginal and selfless, when in fact she had an ego and a sex drive no different from those of hearing and sighted people.
Keywords: keller biography and autobiography women blind deaf history audio biography blindness Helen Keller A Life Herrmann Dorothy
Price: $18.00 |
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Osbourne, Sharon: Sharon Osbourne Survivor: My Story: The Next Chapter
Book Number: 50288
Little, Brown Book Group 2007 8vo softcover 288pp index, colour illus. very good. When she completed her bestselling first book Sharon Osbourne Extreme she had hoped to find some peace and stability after her rollercoaster years. It was not to be. In her brand new memoir she reveals what really happened next-from famous celebrity feuds, to her eventful experiences on The X Factor, to her turbulent relationship with her father and the tragic impact of his death, Sharon remains as frank and insightful as ever. Never afraid to admit her own problems, she is brutally honest about her weight issues and plastic surgery. She also describes movingly how her husband's unconditional love finally brought her true happiness, even amid all the chaos of her life.
Keywords: Sharon Osbourne Survivor My Story The Next Chapter Osbourne Sharon
Price: $10.00 |
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Shelden, Michael: George Orwell: The Authorised Biography
Book Number: 50326
William Heinemann Ltd October 14, 1991 8vo Hardcover in d/w. 600pp good+, top cormer of first 100 pages slightly wavy. This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.
Keywords: George Orwell The Authorised Biography Shelden Michael
Price: $18.00 |
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Murray, Kevin: And then my Mum took me to Hospital - Stories from a Baby Boomer's Early Life
Book Number: 50464
Self Published 2005 8vo. Softcover. 171pp. Signed by Author on title page. A series of tales from the Author, born in 1950, and growing up in Seaforth.
Keywords: Baby Boomer's, NSW life
Price: $15.00 |
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Dodd, Philip: The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium : Encounters with Heroes of the English Language, from the Earl of Sandwich to Joseph P Frisbie
Book Number: 50573
Random House, London, 2007. 8vo. hardcover. 266pp. index. Very good. / Very good d/w with small tear bottom edge.
Keywords: biography humour facts
Price: $18.00 |
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Attenborough, David: Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
Book Number: 50563
BBC Books, 2009. Revised & updated edition. 8vo shardcover 416pp index, b/w illus. Fine. / Near Fine d/w. Amused and amusing, the working memoirs of one of the most influential, admired and best-liked figures in English television. When 26, he applied for a job in the BBC - which then meant radio - and was promptly turned down. But someone saw his rejected application and asked, would he like to try television? He would, and fifty years later he is still at it.
Keywords: Science Nature Biography Life on Air Memoirs of a Broadcaster Attenborough David
Price: $25.00 |
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Harrison, Kathryn: Another place at the table : a story of shattered childhoods and the healing power of family
Book Number: 50576
Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2003 8vo softcover 224pp very good.
Keywords: Another place at the table a story of shattered childhoods and the healing power of family Harrison Kathryn
Price: $15.00 |
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Edgar, Patricia [Janet Holmes a Court]: Janet Holmes a Court
Book Number: 50644
Australia: Harper Collins, 1999 8vo. Softcover. 390pp. index. b/w plates. very good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: australian biography Janet Holmes a Court robert heytesbury holdings business politics
Price: $18.00 |
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