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Barbara Biggs Barbara Biggs i(A74323 works by)
Born: Established: 1956 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Treating Child Abusers Before It Is Too Late Barbara Biggs , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 July 2006; (p. 11)
1 1 y separately published work icon Chatroom Barbara Biggs , Jennifer Mary Dabbs , St Kilda East : Micklind Enterprises , 2006 Z1281512 2006 single work novel young adult
1 3 y separately published work icon The Accidental Renovator : A Paris Story Barbara Biggs , Floradale Productions Sly Ink , 2005 Z1230159 2005 single work autobiography
1 What a Messe! Barbara Biggs , Patrick Gallagher , Mary Cunnane , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 36 no. 3 2004; (p. 20-25)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Road Home : What Price Redemption Barbara Biggs , Smithfield : Floradale Productions and Sly Ink , 2004 Z1127241 2004 single work autobiography
1 The Biggs Picture Barbara Biggs , 2003 extract autobiography (In Moral Danger : A True Story)
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 April 2003; (p. 5)
1 5 y separately published work icon In Moral Danger : A True Story Barbara Biggs , Australia : Sly Ink , 2003 Z1026335 2003 single work autobiography

'He was 42 and one of Australia's most successful criminal barristers.She was 14, a runaway with nowhere to go. She later learnt the barrister had paid her grandmother. She had been sold... So begins Barbara Biggs's inside account of the dark side of the permissive seventies. The episode is to haunt her for years. But it is only one part of an extraordinary family story told with black humour and unflinching honesty. At 13 she runs away from home for wayward girls. At 16 she admits herself to a psychiatric hospital. At 18 she escapes Cambodia as it falls to the Khmer Rouge. At 19 she is a prostitute in Japan. At 21 she threw unionism into chaos making headlines around Australia. And lives to tell the tale. This is it.'
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