The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history
By: Peter FitzSimons
4.29
Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Austr…
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1. From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories
By: Mark McKenna
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat bro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. Time and Time Again
By: Ben Elton
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally… read more
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"Иногда лучше все оставить как есть. Время – не прялка. Время – пряжа."-Ben Elton, Time and Time Again
"Such a lot to have thrown away to please an unbalanced ruler and a few vicious old generals."-Ben Elton, Time and Time Again
"Австро-Венгерская империя? Ей и без того хватало забот – разобраться бы, на каких языках говорить в собственном парламенте."-Ben Elton, Time and Time Again
"В глубине души люди хотят костра и серы. Они мечтают о жестком мстительном Боге, который повелевает и карает за непослушание."-Ben Elton, Time and Time Again
3. The First Casualty
By: Ben Elton
3.94
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German … read more
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"Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"But these are only words and probably convey only a fraction of their meaning to the hearers. They shudder and it is forgotten."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"Don't you just love the army? They take a fellow who's been turned into a catatonic mute by being shelled from here to Christmas and say he's not yet been properly diagnosed but he seems a bit nervou…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"I'm twenty-two and a woman. One of the ways men diminish women's status and our contribution whilst simultaneously entrenching their quasi-paternal male authority is to call us girls. Girls go to sch…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
4. If Blood Should Stain the Wattle
By: Jackie French
4.53
Format: 194 pages, ebook
It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. In 1972, and the … read more
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- australia
5. My Place
By: Sally Morgan
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiogr… read more
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- australia
6. One Summer: America, 1927
By: Bill Bryson
4.09
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports read… read more
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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts"-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
7. Great North Road
By: Peter F. Hamilton
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humani… read more
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8. Opium: A History
By: Martin Booth
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more
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9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nonfiction
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
10. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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12. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- nonfiction
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13. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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14. The Long Weekend
By: Judy Nunn
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Six short stories from Australia’s master storyteller Judy Nunn. The Long Weekend Tracy, Eve, Je… read more
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15. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
By: Daniel L. Everett
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how di… read more
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16. A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
By: Fay Bound Alberti
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A… read more
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17. The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history
By: Peter FitzSimons
4.29
Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Austr… read more
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- ireland
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18. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Tempur-Pedic
By: Alison Espach
3.62
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
In this at-once hilarious and heartbreaking series, In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead P… read more
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19. The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4)
By: Walter Jon Williams
3.94
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a r… read more
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20. Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
By: Aminata Conteh-Biger
4.28
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
'The best and the worst of our shared humanity...breathtaking and heartbreaking.' The Hon. Dame Que… read more
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