Madness: A Memoir by Kate Richards
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard for the sun. Sometimes it is a well of dark water with no bottom, or a levitation device to the stars. Madness, a Memoir is an insight ...Show more
My Wild Ride: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman's Faith and Determination Helped Her Overcome Life's Greatest Odds by Fiona Johnson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Fiona Johnson was born a city girl. But she was always drawn to horses. Aged 10 she saved all of her pocket money to buy a saddle at a garage sale. Eventually, after months of nagging her parents, she persuaded them to buy her a horse to go with the saddle. And so began a life-long love affair with hors ...Show more
Mattress Actress by Annika Cleeve
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Mattress Actress is the story of Annika Cleeve’s eighteen years as a sex worker. Her troubled childhood in Queensland led to working in a brothel on the Sunshine Coast at the age of fifteen, and from there Annika worked her way up to the high-end parlours, agencies and private work in various parts of A ...Show more
Steven Spielberg: Masters of Cinema Series by Clelia Cohen
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Steven Spielberg (USA, born 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation of the studios. As a fan of special effects, and entirely attuned to the shift to ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this record of a life-long love affair with the sea, Tim Winton's prose ripples, shimmers and surges with awe and respect for how the ocean has not only sustained him physically and emotionally but determined the very rhythms of his life.' Fiona Capp, The Age On childhood holidays to the beach the su ...Show more
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age is a humourous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein g ...Show more
The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Based on a popular ESPN Magazine article - optioned by Disney films, a finalist for a National Magazine Award and chosen by Dave Eggers for inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 - the astonishing true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the slums of Kampala, Uganda, who - inspired by a ...Show more
Of Rivers, Baguettes and Billabongs: A Literary Journey Through Australia and France by Reg Egan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Very good condition. This an insightful look at the history and lives affected by two rivers in two different continents: The Darling in Australia and the Dordogne in France. The author cleverly draws parallels between the two seemingly unrelated landscapes exploring the people and their culture. He ret ...Show more
Beijing Tai Tai : A Suburban Journey to Urban China by Tania McCartney
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Beijing Tai Tai' is a collection of witty observations on Beijing expat life, from a mother, wife and woman intent on capturing her love-hate affair with China. Intensely personal, at times a little controversial, it's a rollercoaster ride of honesty and openness as a mother and wife (tai tai) juggles ...Show more
The Boy Who Loved Apples: A Mother's Battle With Her Son's Anorexia by Amanda Webster
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When it became clear that Amanda Webster's eleven-year-old son Riche was not just a little too skinny but dangerously ill, people were often surprised. Do boys get anorexia? they would ask. And then, How did he get it? That was the question Amanda asked herself, too. She had trained as a doctor; she kne ...Show more