Bill Haley called him 'a future king' of rock. Billy Thorpe idolised him. Fans loved him. We knew him simply as JO'K.Johnny O'Keefe was a human dynamo. Australia's first king of rock'n'roll, his massive influence still looms large on the Australian entertainment...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2013-07-30

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The story of the life and work of England's greatest essayist and key figure in Regency England.William Hazlitt is England's greatest essayist. He was also a philosopher, a painter, a controversialist and a radical, whose critical writings about literature, the theatre...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-07-25

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Drawing on a rich selection of private papers and hours of interviews with Deedes and his contemporaries, Stephen Robinson charts brilliantly the depths and shallows of the life of the man who inspired Evelyn Waugh's hapless reporter William Boot in Scoop and was the...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2013-07-25

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In this searingly honest memoir, Jane Haynes recalls to her psychotherapist her extraordinary story. Having overcome her strange childhood, overshadowed by her mother's absence and father's descent into madness, the real diagnosis of which the family concealed, she...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-07-25

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When, in 1991, Bill Morris became General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union - then the largest trade union in the country - it marked a huge break in the culture of British working class attitudes towards racial discrimination. The first black...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2013-07-25

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"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a sleepy provincial...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2013-07-25

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Pillay, a trailblazer in Human Rights Law, was born in 1941 to a humble Indian family in apartheid South Africa. She faced enormous obstacles to her aspirations for further education and a meaningful career. However, in 1967 she was the first black woman in South Africa...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2013-07-25

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From the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the final declaration of peace the following year the Allied forces fought a bitter battle to the end against Hitler's Nazi Germany. Sean Longden re-tells the unexpected true story of life among the ranks of Field Marshall...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-07-25

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Peter Goldsworthy, award-winning author of the much-loved Maestro, explores his influences in this quirky, brilliant, funny childhood memoir.Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2013-07-24

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Alywn Torenbeek's boyhood in outback Queensland in the 1940s was spent chasing wild horses, catching death adders and dreaming of becoming a rodeo champion. At the age of 14, he left Kokotunga for good, taking with him a bushman's spirit, an uncanny natural riding...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2013-07-24

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Craig Bellamy is no ordinary rugby league coach. He has a remarkable win-loss record in his ten years with Melbourne Storm, but when he led his team through a season of scandal and turmoil, winning games while playing for no points, he gained national respect. For...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2013-07-24

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The death of Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 was a tragedy.She was one of the brightest music stars in years -a brilliant, original song writer with a mighty voice and great personal charm. Amy was loveable, but troubled. She was as notorious for her messy personal life,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-07-18

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A genuinely original biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire.'A superb history of a memorable subject' Andrew Roberts, bestselling author of CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINYOne of our finest narrative...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-07-18

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'Poignant, fascinating, entertaining and informative... reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind' Financial Times 'Brilliantly captures Kennedy's entire life through the prism of his final months... the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-07-16

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'I loved this book ... a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-07-11

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Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility. He introduced English education to India, creating a class of westernised Indians often reviled as ‘Macaulay’s children’, but today many former ‘Untouchables’ literally worship him as their liberator from...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-07-04
Collection : Mammoth Books
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On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of £2,500,000 (the equivalent of £41 million today). It was called the crime of the century, and the thieves were relentlessly pursued by Scotland Yard until half...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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‘Looking back, I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. The road he took me down was at once both more liberating than I could have dreamed of, and yet more intense than I could cope with. If the path of love doesn’t always run smooth ... then how much...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences – ones to baffle many, not least themselves – until her death,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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