My Life in a Pea Soup (Finch Memoir Prize 2012) by LISA NOPS
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The prize is $10,000 and publication. This year's judges: Jacqueline Kent - writer, editor and scriptwriter. Her biographies are The Making of Julia Gillard, An Exacting Heart: The story of Hephzibah Menuhin and A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life Susan Duncan - writer and editor. Her books ...Show more
YES CHEF! THE UNGARNISHED CONFESSIONS OF by MCMILLAN PHILLIP
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
It's a wonder Phillip McMillan ever became a chef at all, given that his introduction to food as a child was of leathmeat and over-boiled vegetables. However, his world was expanded after first sighting exotic food (a humble eggplant) in his local Italian greengrocer. From that moon he was smitten. Foll ...Show more
A Cook's Life by Stephanie Alexander
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
With her Cook's Companion front and centre in half a million kitchens, Stephanie Alexander is the very definition of a household name. Each day thousands turn to this 'food Bible' for definitive recipes, encouragement and advice. But before Stephanie Alexander penned a word for the emerging food media - ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outs ...Show more
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
An Australian memoir published to critical acclaim worldwide, In My Skin is the true story of Kate Holden's life as sex worker and a heroin addict. Kate was a nice middle-class girl: a dreamy bookworm, a classics scholar and an innocent. In this memoir she chronicles in frank and beautifully crafted pro ...Show more
Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
Rock Star - Story of Reg Sprigg by WEIDENBACH Kristin
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
This book tells the story of the life of an intrepid, determined and oft times irreverant pioneering Australian, Reg Sprigg, a man regarded by many as the greatest geologist of his generation and one of the best Australia has produced.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists by Neil Strauss
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it. Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist - men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques of seducing women. None of this is fiction. These men have their own vernacular and codes of honour, they trade strategies ...Show more
The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays by John Hughes
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A collection of autobiographical essays in which John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household rules by memories of the Ukgraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War.
The Last Resort : A Zimbabwe Memoir by Douglas Rogers
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe.
Sid James: Cockney Rebel by Robert Ross
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Everyone thinks they know the Sid James story the womaniser who carried on with his Carry On leading lady, Barbara Windsor, and drank himself to death after the affair ended. Sid was certainly a lover of the flesh be it chorus girls or race horses but the rumours that have enlivened hundreds of newspape ...Show more