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The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2008 Non-fiction

I Am Melba
Ann Blainey

$0.00 – Trade paperback / Black Inc

I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age.

Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell showed musical promise and dreamed of fame, but her father ha... Buy or find out more 


Van Diemen's Land: A History
James Boyce

$0.00 – Hardcover book / Black Inc

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book James Boyce shows how the convict... Buy or find out more 



An Exacting Heart: The Story Of Hephzibah Menuhin
Jacqueline Kent

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Viking

Hephzibah Menuhin had a musical gift most people only dream of. Her refusal to be defined by it led her to reinvent herself not once, but twice in her remarkable life.

Born in 1920 in San Francisco she was, like her worl... Buy or find out more 


A Family History Of Smoking
Andrew Riemer

$32.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press

A Family History of Smoking is a compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From great-grandfather David, who saw his family's fortunes decline with the gr... Buy or find out more 



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