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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
by Stephen GroszPublished: 01/02/2013
This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences.
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The Burning Library: Writings on Art,Politics and Sexuality 1969-1993
by Edmund WhitePublished: 01/12/2010
Not only a brilliant collection of literary essays, but a moving and personal account of the changes in gay life over three decades.
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Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/11/2004
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia’s public language, Don Watson’s Death Sentence is scathing, funny and brilliant.
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Dear Mum
by Julia MorrisPublished: 02/04/2013
In this wonderful collection of letters from celebrities to their mothers, Australian sporting stars, musicians, models, cooks and famous authors reveal what they would like to say to their mothers before it’s too late, or would have said if only they’d had the chance.
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Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom Of Modern Management
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/12/2010
New customer-focused edition with extra strategic alignment. More key challenges for readers going forward.
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Three Famines
by Tom KeneallyPublished: 01/09/2011
A standout history told with Tom Keneally panache.
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The Big House on the Hill
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/03/2013
Before The West Wing, there was Don Watson.
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Out of a Wild Sea
by Richard FlanaganPublished: 01/03/2013
This essay is taken from Richard Flanagan's acclaimed collection of nonfiction pieces, And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?, published in Vintage.
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Random House New Books App
by No AuthorPublished: 04/03/2013
The Random House New Books app for iPad is FREE and a great way to discover the latest new book releases – all at your fingertips!
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The End: The Human Experience Of Death
by Bianca NogradyPublished: 01/05/2013
A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death.
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Strange Times
by Georgia BlainPublished: 01/03/2013
Nothing is as vivid, or as strange, as the memory of our school days.
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The 20th Century in Poetry
by Simon Rae and Michael HulsePublished: 15/10/2011
The history of the 20th century through the poets' eyes, starting with Thomas Hardy and John Masefield and finishing with Carol Ann Duffy and Jeffrey Harrison
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Georgette Heyer Biography
by Jennifer KloesterPublished: 01/12/2011
The definitive biography of one of Britain’s best-loved novelists.
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Reflections on Recollections of a Bleeding Heart
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/03/2013
Ten years on, award-winning writer Don Watson reflects on Paul Keating's response to Recollections of a Bleeding Heart.
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Burning Babylon
by Michael Symmons RobertsPublished: 15/08/2001
A very powerful sequence of poems about Greenham Common
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Joseph Anton
by Salman RushdiePublished: 18/09/2012
A compelling and frank account of one of the most extraordinary stories in recent literary history - Salman Rushdie and the fatwa.
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Liberation: Diaries Vol 3
by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine BucknellPublished: 01/05/2012
Hilarious and often deeply moving, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary diaries chronicles the 1970s, with a preface by Edmund White
