Biographies & Memoir 2014

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Mrs Mort’s Madness

Suzanne Falkiner

Four days before Christmas in 1920, Dorothy Mort shot her lover dead in cold blood. The tragic end to her affair with dashing young doctor, cricket star and War hero…

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Peacemongers

Barry Hill

In his first major prose work since 2002’s Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic - a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with…

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Aunt Sass: Christmas Stories

P. L. Travers, OBE

In the 1940s, P. L. Travers wrote three stories, which she gave as Christmas gifts to friends. Now, for the first time, they are available to a wider readership. Printed…

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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Hermione Lee

Penelope Fitzgerald published her book aged sixty. She went on to become one of the greatest of English novelists. Her remarkable life spans most of the twentieth century, and moves…

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Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Jennifer Worth’s bestselling books not only inspired the BBC’s CALL THE MIDWIFE, but also a deluge of letters as readers shared their own stories. Also includes previously unpublished photos and…

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Working Stiff: 2 years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner

Judy Melinek, MD,T.J. Mitchell

An engrossing, poignant, humorous and gripping account of the life of a medical examiner - and the secrets a body can reveal. A must for fans of true crime, the…

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Beyond Black and White

Roger Woodward

The definitive musical autobiography from internationally acclaimed Australian pianist Roger Woodward. Woodward shares his remarkable story in a memoir that is deeply personal, honest, passionate and layered. Classical music fans…

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I, Little Asylum

Emmanuelle Guattari

In this lyrical chronicle of a childhood at La Borde, Felix Guattari’s daughter Emanuelle Guattari offers a series of impressionistic vignettes drawn from her own experiences. As a child whose…

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