Adult non-fiction - Biography, September 2008
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- "Now then, lad--" : tales of a country bobby / Pannett, Mike. (Published: 2008)
- 7 days to live : the amazing true story of how one man survived 21 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit / Yarris, Nick. (Published: 2008)
- 90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life / Piper, Don, 1950- (Published: 2004)
- An accidental tragedy : the life of Mary, Queen of Scots / Graham, Roderick, 1934- (Published: 2008)
- American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work / Cheever, Susan. (Published: 2007)
- Anticancer : a new way of life / Servan-Schreiber, David. (Published: 2008)
- Ariel Sharon : an intimate portrait / Dan, Uri. (Published: 2007)
- Bali 9 : the untold story / Wockner, Cindy. (Published: 2008)
- Batista unleashed / Batista, Dave. (Published: 2007)
- Beaten by a blow : a shearer's story / McIntosh, Dennis. (Published: 2008)
- Betsy : the dramatic biography of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry / Hatton, Jean. (Published: 2005)
- Beyond the razor wire : --is Australia, where everything's free : the true story of a detention officer's experiences at Woomera and Curtin Illegal Immigrant Camps and at a Queensland maximum security / Thorne, Sandy. (Published: 2003)
- Beyond ugly / Briscoe, Constance. (Published: 2007)
- Billy Vincent : bush pilot / Nicholson, Guy. (Published: 2007)
- Bismarck : the Iron Chancellor / Ullrich, Volker, 1943- (Published: 2008)
- Black wave : / Silverwood, Jean. (Published: 2008)
- Blood & tinsel : a memoir / Sharman, Jim. (Published: 2008)
- The bolter : Idina Sackville - the woman who scandalised 1920s society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress / Osborne, Frances. (Published: 2008)
- Brutal journey : Cabeza de Vaca and the epic first crossing of North America / Schneider, Paul, 1962- (Published: 2007)
- Captain Cook : voyager between worlds / Gascoigne, John, 1951- (Published: 2007)
- Captivated : J.M. Barrie, the du Mauriers and the dark side of Neverland / Dudgeon, Piers. (Published: 2008)
- Car lovers : twelve Australian writers on four wheels / Dale, John, 1953- (Published: 2008)
- Casanova : actor, spy, lover, priest / Kelly, Ian, 1966- (Published: 2008)
- Ching chong China girl : from fruitshop to foreign correspondent / Chung Martin, Helene, 1945- (Published: 2008)
- Cinderella Man / Shipton, Paul. (Published: 2006)
- Cleopatra and Antony : the true story of the ancient world's greatest love affair / Preston, Diana, 1952- (Published: 2008)
- Come on shore and we will kill and eat you all : an unlikely love story / Thompson, Christina, 1959- (Published: 2008)
- Copernicus' secret : how the scientific revolution began / Repcheck, Jack. (Published: 2007)
- Court in the middle / Fraser, Andrew. (Published: 2007)
- The crazyladies of Pearl Street / Trevanian. (Published: 2007)
- Cut : the true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family / Glass, Cathy. (Published: 2008)
- D.H. Lawrence and Frieda : a portrait of love and loyalty / Squires, Michael. (Published: 2008)
- Daddy's little earner : a heartbreaking true story of a brave little girl's escape from violence / Landon, Maria. (Published: 2008)
- Dali & I : the surreal story / Lauryssens, Stan, 1946- (Published: 2008)
- Diego Velázquez, 1599-1660 : the face of Spain / Wolf, Norbert, 1949- (Published: 2006)
- Dream aircraft : the most fascinating airplanes I've ever flown / Schiff, Barry J. (Published: 2007)
- Elizabeth / Taraborrelli, J. Randy. (Published: 2006)
- Errol Flynn and the sword of fate / Casey, Robert James, 1952- (Published: 2008)
- Every second counts / Armstrong, Lance. (Published: 2004)
- Everything is cinema : the working life of Jean-Luc Godard / Brody, Richard, 1958- (Published: 2006)
- Five years of my life : an innocent man in Guantanamo / Kurnaz, Murat, 1982- (Published: 2008)
- From Poverty Bay to Broadway : the story of Tom Heeney / Monin, Lydia. (Published: 2008)
- Gallipoli sniper : the life of Billy Sing / Hamilton, John, 1940- (Published: 2008)
- Gangster : the biography of international drug trafficker John Gilligan / Mooney, John. (Published: 2008)
- Gaspipe : confessions of a Mafia boss / Carlo, Philip. (Published: 2008)
- Girl in high heels : intimate confessions of a London stripper / Moore, Ellouise. (Published: 2008)
- Giving up the ghost : a memoir / Mantel, Hilary, 1952- (Published: 2004)
- Glenn McGrath : line and strength : the complete story / McGrath, Glenn. (Published: 2008)
- The godfather : the life of Brian Burke / Beresford, Quentin. (Published: 2008)
- God's callgirl : a memoir / Raay, Carla van. (Published: 2004)
- Gordon Ramsay : the biography / Simpson, Neil. (Published: 2006)
- Growing old (dis)gracefully : 35 Australians reflect on life over 50 / Fitzgerald, Ross, 1944- (Published: 2008)
- Hans Heysen : into the light / Hylton, Jane, 1950- (Published: 2004)
- Harry's war : the true story of the soldier prince / Jobson, Robert. (Published: 2008)
- Heart country / McGinnis, Kerry. (Published: 2001)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson : a biography / Assouline, Pierre. (Published: 2005)
- Hidden : betrayed, exploited and forgotten : how one boy overcame the odds / Glass, Cathy. (Published: 2007)
- The honour and the shame / Kenneally, John. (Published: 2008)
- Hope's boy / Bridge, Andrew. (Published: 2008)
- How could he do it? / Charles, Emma. (Published: 2008)
- The I Chong : meditations from the joint / Chong, Tommy, 1938- (Published: 2006)
- The ice man : confessions of a Mafia contract killer / Carlo, Philip. (Published: 2007)
- If only Mum knew / Mifsud, Mark, 1955- (Published: 2007)
- Images of Marilyn Monroe (Published: 2008)
- In your face / Mills, Lia. (Published: 2007)
- JFK and Sam : the connection between the Giancana and Kennedy assassinations / Giancana, Antoinette. (Published: 2005)
- JFK and the unspeakable : why he died and why it matters / Douglass, James W. (Published: 2008)
- The jive talker, or, How to get a British passport / Kambalu, Samson. (Published: 2008)
- Joe in the Andamans and other fictocritical stories / Muecke, Stephen, 1951- (Published: 2008)
- Joseph Conrad, master mariner : the novelist's life at sea, based on a previously unpublished study by Alan Villiers / Villiers, Peter. (Published: 2006)
- Just the ten of us / Rohan Kelly, Margaret. (Published: 2003)
- The last lecture / Pausch, Randy. (Published: 2008)
- Lawyer boy : a case study on growing up / Lax, Rick. (Published: 2008)
- Left for dead : how I survived 71 days in the outback / Megee, Ricky. (Published: 2008)
- Let sleeping vets lie / Herriot, James, 1916- (Published: 2006)
- Love hurts : the true story of a life destroyed / Randall, Jeff. (Published: 2008)
- Loving Natalee : a mother's testament of hope and faith / Holloway, Beth. (Published: 2007)
- Lumumba : Africa's lost leader / Zeilig, Leo. (Published: 2008)
- Mad, bad & dangerous to know / Fiennes, Ranulph Sir, 1944- (Published: 2007)
- Madonna : like an icon / O'Brien, Lucy. (Published: 2008)
- Magnifico : the brilliant life and violent times of Lorenzo de' Medici / Unger, Miles. (Published: 2008)
- The making of me : finding my future after assault / Wagner, Tegan. (Published: 2007)
- Marlborough : England's fragile genius / Holmes, Richard, 1946- (Published: 2008)
- Matthew Brady and Ned Kelly : kindred spirits, kindred lives / Williams, Paul. (Published: 2007)
- Memoir and letters of Francis W. Newman / Sieveking, I Giberne. (Published: 2006)
- Memories of James Hunt / Hilton, Christopher, 1944- (Published: 2006)
- Memory maps / St Aubin de Teran, Lisa, 1953- (Published: 2002)
- Minus one : a year with breast cancer / Hansen, D. E. (Dorothy E.) (Published: 2007)
- Miracles of life : Shanghai to Shepperton : an autobiography / Ballard, J. G. (James Graham), 1930- (Published: 2008)
- My Colombian death / Thompson, Matthew. (Published: 2008)
- My father's roses : a family's memoir of three generations divided by fate and united through love / Kohner, Nancy. (Published: 2008)
- No one wants you : a true story of a child forced into prostitution / Roberts, Celine, 1948- (Published: 2008)
- Nun the less : autobiography of Sister Mary Noonan (formerly: Sister Angela) / Noonan, Mary, Sister. (Published: 2008)
- Observations of a very short man / Marsh, Nigel, 1964- (Published: 2007)
- One of a kind : the Doug Walters story / Mallett, Ashley, 1945- (Published: 2008)
- Out of the depths of sexual sin : the story of my life and ministry / Gallagher, Steve. (Published: 2003)
- Poe : a life cut short / Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- (Published: 2008)
- Pretty is what changes : impossible choices, the breast cancer gene, and how I defied my destiny / Queller, Jessica, 1969- (Published: 2008)
- The printing of a masterpiece / Loney, Alan, 1940- (Published: 2008)
- Read my heart : Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple : a love story in the age of revolution / Dunn, Jane. (Published: 2008)
- Reading the play : on life and leadership / Hird, James. (Published: 2006)
- Riding with Rilke : reflections on motorcycles and books / Bishop, Edward. (Published: 2006)
- Rise / Poulson, Ingrid. (Published: 2008)
- Rocket science : the biography of Rodney Eade / Hillier, Kevin. (Published: 2008)
- The Romanovs : ruling Russia, 1613-1917 / Hughes, Lindsey, 1949-2007. (Published: 2008)
- Ronnie's looking for trouble : a true story of Britain's most brutal undercover cop / Howard, Ronnie. (Published: 2008)
- The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif / Mazari, Najaf, 1971- (Published: 2008)
- Sagittarius rising / Lewis, Cecil, 1898- (Published: 2006)
- Sailing to the moon : the biography of Rolly Tasker, Australia's greatest all-round yachtsman / Perry, Roland, 1946- (Published: 2008)
- SAS heroes : remarkable soldiers, extraordinary men / Scholey, Pete. (Published: 2008)
- Scarred / Andrews, Sophie. (Published: 2007)
- Searching for daddy : desperate for love, driven to the edge of hell / Hart, Christine Joanna. (Published: 2008)
- Secrets of the monarch : what the dead can teach us about living a better life / DuBois, Allison. (Published: 2007)
- Sentenced by innocence / Kemp, Janine. (Published: 2008)
- Shadow warrior / Everett, David Francis, 1962- (Published: 2008)
- The ship thieves / Rees, Sian, 1965- (Published: 2006)
- Shoot the damn dog : a memoir of depression / Brampton, Sally, 1955- (Published: 2008)
- Sold / Stevens, Tess. (Published: 2008)
- Soldier : the autobiography of General Sir Mike Jackson / Jackson, Mike, Sir. (Published: 2008)
- Somewhere towards the end / Athill, Diana. (Published: 2008)
- The soul of the rhino : a Nepali adventure with kings and elephant drivers, billionaires, and bureaucrats, shamans and scientists, and the Indian rhinoceros / Mishra, Hemanta R. (Published: 2008)
- Spotted pigs and green tomatoes : a year in the life of our farm / Boycott, Rosie. (Published: 2008)
- Stalin's children : three generations of love and betrayal / Matthews, Owen. (Published: 2008)
- Stargazing : memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper / Hill, Peter, 1953- (Published: 2003)
- Stolen innocence : my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs / Wall, Elissa. (Published: 2008)
- Stories from the other side / Smith, Gordon, 1962- (Published: 2006)
- Street without a name : childhood and other misadventures in Bulgaria / Kassabova, Kapka. (Published: 2008)
- Sunbathing naked and other miracle cures : a memoir / Kennaway, Guy. (Published: 2008)
- Survive the worst and aim for the best / Katona, Kerry, 1980- (Published: 2007)
- A swag of memories / Taylor, Brian Keith, 1937- (Published: 2008)
- Sweet dreams : the story of Green & Blacks / Sams, Craig. (Published: 2008)
- Tabloid man : the life and times of Ezra Norton / Hall, Sandra, 1942- (Published: 2008)
- Tears of the desert : one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur / Bashir, Halima, 1979- (Published: 2008)
- That mean old yesterday / Patton, Stacey. (Published: 2008)
- That'd be right : a fairly true history of modern Australia / McInnes, William. (Published: 2008)
- Thin white line / Cave, Andy. (Published: 2008)
- Thomas Hardy / Dolin, Tim, 1959- (Published: 2008)
- Tom Wills : his spectacular rise and tragic fall / De Moore, Gregory, 1958- (Published: 2008)
- The top 100 F1 drivers of all time / Henry, Alan, 1947- (Published: 2008)
- Torn apart : the true story of two sisters who found each other after sixty-five years / Le Fleur, Sybil. (Published: 2008)
- Troublesome young men : the Churchill conspiracy of 1940 / Olson, Lynne. (Published: 2007)
- The truth about stories : a native narrative / King, Thomas, 1943- (Published: 2005)
- Twenty tales from the war zone : the best of John Simpson / Simpson, John, 1944- (Published: 2007)
- Ugly / Briscoe, Constance. (Published: 2006)
- Under the holy lake : a memoir of eastern Bhutan / Haigh, Ken, 1962- (Published: 2008)
- Untamed & unashamed : time to explain / Hanson, Pauline (Pauline Lee) (Published: 2007)
- Wally's world : life with Wally the wonder dog / Boulton, Marsha. (Published: 2008)
- Wanted man : the forgotten story of an American outlaw / Spargo, Tamsin. (Published: 2005)
- Warrior poets : guns, movie-making and the wild west of Pakistan / Gilmour, Benjamin, 1975- (Published: 2008)
- Warrior-king of Shambhala : remembering Chögyam Trungpa / Hayward, Jeremy W. (Published: 2008)
- Wave man / Redenbach, Robert. (Published: 2006)
- What happened : inside the Bush White House and Washington's culture of deception / McClellan, Scott, 1968- (Published: 2008)
- Wish I could be there : notes from a phobic life / Shawn, Allen. (Published: 2007)
- The young widow's book of home improvement : a true story of love and renovation / Lloyd, Virginia. (Published: 2008)
