Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endur ...Show more
How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as inv ...Show more
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
$27.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, tradit ...Show more
An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life by Joe Hildebrand
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Joe Hildebrand is the man you see on TV, the man you read in the Daily Telegraph, the man you might follow on Twitter (where he's rated as one of the Top Ten most influential Tweeters in Australia), the man with an opinion on everything and anything, especially the dire straits of the current political ...Show more
Feel-Good Hit of the Year by Liam Pieper
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
What happens when a young man adopts the practices of a counterculture, without any of its ethics? Liam Pieper was raised by his bohemian parents to believe in freedom and creativity, and that there's nothing wrong with smoking a little marijuana to make life easier. Nothing if not precocious, he used t ...Show more
How I Rescued My Brain by David Roland
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
As a psychologist specializing in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun to take its toll--and then the global financial crisis hit, leaving his family facing financial ruin. So when he found himself in a local emergency ward wit ...Show more
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, 110 floors up above the earth, as a hundred thousand people ...Show more
Danger Music: How teaching the cello to children in Afghanistan led to a self-discovery almost too hard to bear by Eddie Ayres
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience, from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful Australian morning radio show. But all of this tim ...Show more
Not That Kind of Love by Clare Wise
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A moving, thought-provoking and surprisingly humorous book which is both a description of a journey to death and a celebration of the act of living.Based on Clare Wise's blog, which she started when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013, Not That Kind of Love charts the highs and lows of the last ...Show more
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he ...Show more
Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius by John Carlin
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"In Chase Your Shadow, journalist and author John Carlin tells the gripping story of Oscar Pistorius's tragic journey from sporting icon to accused murderer. Before Valentine's Day of 2013, Pistorius was best known as an extraordinary athlete, the 'Blade Runner' who became the first amputee in history t ...Show more
Ocean Notorious. Journeys to lost and lonely places of the deep south by Matt Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
For lovers of exciting non-fiction about remote and rarely visited places - and maritime adventures. True first-person stories of the Southern Ocean from NZ to Antarctica - the windiest, roughest, most isolated body of water on earth. Can be compared with: - Simon Winchester's Atlantic - Johnny Wray's S ...Show more