Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
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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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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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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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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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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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'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
Jim Stynes: My Journey by Jim Stynes
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Unflinching in its honesty, My Journey is the extraordinary memoir of Jim Stynes: Irishman, footballer, Brownlow Medallist, Reach co-founder and former president of Melbourne Football Club whose very public battle with cancer touched the lives of everyone who knew him. When Jim was diagnosed with cancer ...Show more
The Wolf And The Watchman: a CIA Childhood by Scott Johnson
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What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good? Growing up, Scott Johnson always suspected that his dad was somehow different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy. When Johnson later became a war correspondent, he returned to the countries of his youth ...Show more
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack - SIGNED by Brenda Niall
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Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
After Romulus by Raimond Gaita
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In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published - the story of his father, who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illne ...Show more
Julian Assange: the Unauthorised Autobiography by Julian Assange
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Julian Assange: the Unauthorised Biography WikiLeaks has helped redefine our idea of investigative journalism and our understanding of how information should be disseminated. Julian Assange, the visionary creator of and driving force behind this new publishing phenomenon, has a unique perspective on ho ...Show more