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Bligh in Australia
A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion
This fascinating account of early Australia focuses on Governor William Bligh (famous as the captain of "Mutiny On the Bounty" fame). The Rum Rebellion has, for generations, been told to school children as one of the better stories of Australian history - how Bligh was a tyrant deposed by...
ISBN-13: 9781921683503 (Paperback)
Publisher: WOODSLANE PRESS
Imprint: WOODSLANE PRESS
Russell Earls Davis
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AUD $59.99
Stock: 9 in stock
Local release date: 01/12/2010
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Categories: Biography: literary [BGL]

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Roland Penrose
The Friendly Surrealist
In this moving, revealing and highly readable memoir, Antony Penrose has composed a fitting tribute to his father, which also faces up to some of the more controversial aspects of Roland Penrose's life.
ISBN-13: 9780953238958 (Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
Antony Penrose
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AUD $57.99
Stock: 8 in stock
Local release date: 08/04/2021
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Categories: The arts: general issues [AB]Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada [ACXD7]Biography: arts & entertainment [BGF]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Biography: literary [BGL]Memoirs [BM]

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ION IDRIESS
The Last Interview
This book is the last interview with Ion Idriess, prompted by the the ABC Radio’s Tim Bowden, for a possible ABC Radio program that did not eventuate. Within this book Idriess talks of his early years in Broken Hill, he tells of his earliest writing for the Bulletin, on living and photographing Aboriginal tribes in the Kimberleys and Cape York; on ......
ISBN-13: 9781922384980 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Tim Bowden
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AUD $24.95
Stock: 7 in stock
Local release date: 23/10/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Biography: literary [BGL]

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Business Is Good
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professional Writer
A collection of eleven essays on the career and texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the delicate balance in Fitzgerald's career between money and literary respectability.
ISBN-13: 9780271094878 (Hardback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
James L. W. West III
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AUD $91.99
Stock: 5 in stock
Local release date: 13/06/2023
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Biography: literary [BGL]

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Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes
Essays
Written by preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary critic, Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional and autobiographical writings. The volume opens with a close reading of Tender Is the Night, in which Donaldson argues that the key theme of the ......
ISBN-13: 9780271093963 (Paperback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Scott Donaldson
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AUD $36.99
Stock: 5 in stock
Local release date: 23/05/2023
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Categories: Biography: literary [BGL]Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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Sun King's Counsellor, Cecil Harwood
A Documentary Biography
He [Harwood] is the sole Horatio known to me in this age of Hamlets... - C. S. Lewis, from Surprised by Joy --- Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) - lecturer,
ISBN-13: 9781912230716 (Paperback)
Publisher: RUDOLF STEINER PRESS
Imprint: TEMPLE LODGE PUBLISHING
Simon Blaxland-de Lange
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AUD $61.99
Stock: 5 in stock
Local release date: 27/08/2021
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: literary [BGL]

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UP AND DOWN THE REAL AUSTRALIA
The second of three story collections from the writer of the acclaimed Bony crime novels, with 45 stories from the author's tramping around Australia, dealing with camels and station hands, and his experience in WW1 at Gallipoli and the Middle East. Full of fantastic characters only found in the great Australian bush.
ISBN-13: 9781922473271 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Arthur Upfield
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 4 in stock
Local release date: 11/12/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: literary [BGL]Autobiography: literary [BGLA]Humanities [H]History [HB]History: earliest times to present day [HBL]Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]

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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life
An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.
ISBN-13: 9781909572065 (Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBAL BOOKS
Imprint: FENTUM
Janet Todd
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AUD $115.00
Stock: 4 in stock
Local release date: 01/07/2017
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Biography: literary [BGL]Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]Literary studies: fiction, novelists, prose [DSK]Espionage & secret services [JPSH]United Kingdom, Great Britain [1DBK]c 1600 to c 1700 [3JD]

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Mythbusting Hemingway
Debunking Hemingway Myths and Celebrating the Extraordinary Stories of H
Did Ernest Hemingway kill 122 Nazis during World War II? Did he box heavyweight champion Gene Tunney? Did he grow his hair long and want to be called Catherine? Is it true that he threatened to fire anyone who drained his pool after Ava Gardner skinny-dipped in it? Mythbusting Hemingway will feature answers to these longstanding questions and ......
ISBN-13: 9781493064052 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
Thomas Bevilacqua, Robert K Elder
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AUD $44.99
Stock: 3 in stock
Local release date: 22/11/2023
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Categories: Biography: literary [BGL]