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1 y separately published work icon Dames and Divas : Twenty-One Remarkable Women David Leser , Sydney Double Bay : Park Street Press Media 21 Publishing , 2006 Z1305489 2006 selected work biography
2 3 y separately published work icon A Cork on the Waves : Reflections of a Turbulent Life Halina Robinson , Darlinghurst : Sydney Jewish Museum , 2005 Z1334589 2005 single work autobiography

'This is the story of how a great European crime, the murderous ethnic program of the German Reich, cancelled out the sweet Polish childhood and adolescence of the child Halina Trachtenberg. Above all, the book fills out our knowledge of the huge injustice done to families like hers. It is wonderful she was able to put it down in a satisfying record.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon The Accidental Gangster : Life and Crimes of Bela Csidei Bela Csidei , Adam Walters , Norm Lipson , Double Bay : Park Street Press , 2005 Z1247335 2005 single work autobiography

'I don't know whether I found trouble or trouble found me. Whatever the case, trouble and I have been lifelong companions...Frank Sinatra, Sir Peter Abeles, Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno... big celebrities, big business, big mobsters and big politicians, from the famous to the infamous, the cast of characters almost defies the imagination.'

'Looking back on his tumultuous life, Bela Csidei, the accidental gangster, recalls a story that takes him from a childhood spent fishing with explosives and a little freelance arms dealing to holding a promissory note for $250 million dollars. From his survival of war-torn Europe to two contracts on his life, Bela emerges as a genuinely colourful character and an optimistic, loveable rogue. In spite of multi-million dollar business deals gone wrong, a drug bust, a stint as a diplomat and an espionage agent for foreign governments, an explorer for minerals, a banker, a womaniser, a shark hunter and a Mafia conduit for Australian big business, Bela has lived to spin a great yarn. As he says, With this book a few less people will die wondering...'

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1 3 y separately published work icon My Life as a Father Ross Campbell , Shelley Gare (editor), Double Bay : Park Street Press , 2005 Z1212677 2005 single work autobiography humour
1 2 y separately published work icon A Lion in the Bedroom Pat Cavendish O'Neill , Sydney Double Bay : Park Street Press Media 21 Publishing , 2004 Z1148513 2004 single work autobiography
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