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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.At 29,028 feet, Mount Everest is the world's highest, most challenging mountain, looming in our imagination as a monument to the impossible; for every three climbers who reach its elusive summit, one dies trying. But for one moment in 1988, Stacy Allison stood alone on this mythic peak - the only spot on Earth where she couldn't climb any higher. At that moment, Allison became the first American woman ever to reach the summit of Everest.Stacy Allison is America's premier female climber, a woman of many triumphs, both on the mountain and off. Beyond the Limits is the tale of her journey upward. It is a thrilling account about breaking through the barriers of a traditional male domain, and a moving personal story about the struggle out of the trap of domestic violence - of how she summoned the same spirit and courage that brought her to the top of the world to finally walk out… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'I wasn't happy. I wasn't unhappy. I was there at that time and that was all. I didn't involve myself in philosophical reflections, but my mind was like a camera, imprinting forever the idyllic beauty of the European summer of 1939.'The idyll does not last long. Within days a young Jewish girl and her family are engulfed by the Second World War in Warsaw, Poland. Outside the concentration camps and mostly outside the ghetto, the adolescent heroine and her family experience the war as civilians with a secret.Living in a country house, they survive on false papers and 'good looks', while hiding four of their close relatives in the cellar. One day, they have to cope with waves of German soldiers bursting through their houses; the next moment, the Warsaw ghetto burns; another day, they wake to find the front line in their front garden.The author recreates this inhuman world… Read More

In good condition - ex library - markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.One of the greatest golfers of the twentieth century - ranked number one in the world for a record number of weeks - Nick Faldo has come to embody the very essence of the successful, competitive international sportsman.Faldo was a teenager when he was taken by the full majesty of golf while watching the 1971 U.S. Masters in Augusta on television. He was inspired by Jack Nicklaus, then at the height of his power, and within five years of taking up the game Faldo had outgrown the amateur circuit to become a tournament professional himself.His single-minded search for perfection drove him through a period when he was struggling with his game. He rebuilt his swing and his confidence to go on to win golf's most coveted title: the 1987 Open Championship at Muirfield. Since then he has continued to capture many of the world's most prestigious titles, including two more Open Championships… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A.D. Hope has described Hal Porter as "the most distinctive and perhaps the most distinguished writer of short stories" in Australia. He is also a major novelist and this important volume makes available a revised edition of Hal Porter's first novel A Handful of Pennies as well as eleven of his brilliant stories.Included too are all the various versions of Porter's screenplay outline "The Jetty" (one of the segments of the Tim Burstall film Libido) along with the author's afterthoughts on the film and his subsequently written short story version.Hal Porter's autobiographical writings are represented by an extract from The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony - regarded by many as his masterpiece - and there are poems and drawings which show his characteristic eye for detail.The section On Writers and Writing gives Porter's view on his own work and that of other Australian authors.

In good condition - has markings from use - dust jacket is damaged - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In 1979, three brothers and their three best mates from Sydney formed a band called INXS and recorded an album that would launch them on an incredible journey from playing Australia's beaches and pubs to the world's biggest concert venues. Along the way, they'd sell 30 million albums, rack up seventeen hit songs in the United States alone, and experience a life of sex drugs and supermodels to rival any in rock history. This is their story.INXS broke new musical ground. In songs like 'Need You Tonight', 'New Sensation', 'Devil Inside', 'Never Tear Us Upart' and 'Suicide Blonde', they turned rock, pop and funk into a cutting edge, danceable style that took the world by storm. Touring the world, they grew up together and made new fans on every continent. In this autobiography, they reveal for the first time everything they experienced in their more than two decades of… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. In September 2014 she began writing essays in the London Review of Books describing living with terminal cancer and examining her complex, fifty-year relationship with the author Doris Lessing, who took Jenny in when she was a troubled teenager. Interweaving past and present, Diski's narrative transports us to the hysterical battlefield of her parental home, her expulsion from school, her drug-taking twenties spent in and out of psychiatric hospitals - and paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers.From one of our most original voices comes a book like no other: a cerebral, witty, candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory and writing, ingratitude and anger; about living with illness and facing death.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the late 80's and early 90's, Stephen Fry had, you might say, 'made it'. Loved for his roles in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, acclaimed for his novel The Liar and surrounded by a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, Stephen discovered that success gave him a taste for excess. Plunging into the high life, he blazed brightly in public and partied unashamedly in private - insensible of the ball which inevitably lay ahead. How had Stephen - so driven to create and entertain - lost his way?

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sallyanne Atkinson AO has been a leader in political and business life for over four decades. A trailblazer for working mothers, she built a high-profile national career while raising five children.No Job for a Woman takes us from Sallyanne's wartime childhood in Sri Lanka to her first jobs as a journalist and TV personality. Driven to make a difference in her community, she entered local politics and went on to become the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane.For the first time, Sallyanne shares the challenges and triumphs of a life devoted to public service in Australia and abroad, including her role in three Olympic bids. Told with warmth and humour, this inspiring story reveals how one women defied the expectations of a generation.

In good condition, has markings from use - due to differing weight in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When The Joshua Tree topped the charts in 22 countries, U2 became the hottest band in the world.Half Catholic, half Protestant, they embody the conflict and anguish of a divided Ireland, but throughout the world their unique music is the voice of hope for the disillusioned, the oppressed and the hungry.This is the story of U2's early days in Dublin, their struggles to be heard against the anarchic sound of punk, their first recording contract with Island Records, their flirtation with fundamentalist Christianity and their breathtaking triumph at "LIVE AID" where they stole the show from the legends of rock music and established themselves as the driving musical force for worldwide political change.