By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life by Ramona Koval
$22.99 AUD
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By the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing. What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar ...Show more
An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life by Joe Hildebrand
$24.99 AUD
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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
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
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Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
Feel-Good Hit of the Year by Liam Pieper
$29.99 AUD
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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
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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
Running Away from Home : Finding a New Life in Paris, London and Beyond by Jane De Teliga
$39.99 AUD
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Jane de Teliga had it all - a glamorous and fulfilling career as style director for Australia's best-loved magazine, a happy family life and a beautiful home in Sydney's stunning eastern suburbs. But when empty nest syndrome struck, she suddenly found herself wondering what it all meant. Who was she whe ...Show more
Walking Free: From Iraqi Refugee to Pioneering Surgeon by Munjed Al Muderis
$32.99 AUD
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In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
$31.95 AUD
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In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improba ...Show more
Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc) by Delia Ephron
$17.99 AUD
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Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of unforgettable, moving and provocative essays. The emotional lynchpin is the author's stirring, eloquent response to the death of Nora Ephron, her older sister and frequent writing companion. In 'Sister', she deftly captures th ...Show more
Desert Children by Waris Dirie
$22.99 AUD
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* From the bestselling author of DESERT FLOWER and DESERT DAWN comes a new book. Waris Dirie reveals the shocking truth of FGM happening to thousands of young girls throughout Europe
Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse by Brigid Keenan
$19.99 AUD
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Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a 'trailing spouse', Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts of thousands in countrie ...Show more
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
$19.99 AUD
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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