All Creatures Great and Small : If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot
$22.95 AUD
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The first Herriot omnibus edition of the classic adventures and misadventures involving the young vet, James Herriot, in the Yorkshire Dales from 1937 onwards.
The Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami by Sonali Deraniyagala
$25.00 AUD
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The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her par ...Show more
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
$39.95 AUD
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In the tradition of "Kitchen Confidential" and "Waiter Rant," a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry. Jacob Tomsky never "intended" to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree and ...Show more
The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story by Emily Rapp
$28.00 AUD
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Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, level-headed but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and gi ...Show more
Things I Didn't Expect (When I Was Expecting) by Monica Dux
$24.99 AUD
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Pregnancy is natural, healthy and fun, right? Sure it is, if you're lucky. For others, it's an adventure in physical discomfort, unachievable ideals, kooky classes and meddling experts. When Monica Dux found herself pregnant with her first child, she was dismayed to find she belonged firmly in the secon ...Show more
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
$45.00 AUD
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Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often insp ...Show more
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$30.00 AUD
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'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
Madness: A Memoir by Kate Richards
$30.00 AUD
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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
Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality by John Schwartz
$35.00 AUD
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A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening guide for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults. Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at "The New York Times," got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son, Joe, w ...Show more
Until I Say Goodbye: My Year of Living with Joy by Susan Spencer-Wendel
$28.00 AUD
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In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - Lou Gehrig's disease, an irreversible condition that systematically destroys the nerves that power the muscles. While Susan cannot stop the rapid decline of her body and her inevitable death, she refuses to give up ...Show more
With or Without You: A Memoir by Domenica Ruta
$27.99 AUD
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A darkly hilarious and compulsively readable mother-daughter story for a new generation. Domenica Ruta grew up in trash-filled house in a hardscrabble town where women were once burned as witches. Her mother, Kathi, was a notorious figure, a drug addict and sometime dealer with highbrow tastes whose lif ...Show more
Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison
$27.99 AUD
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John Elder Robison (the brother of Augusten Burroughs of Running with Scissors fame) wasn't a model child. For those who read John's first book Look Me in the Eye, he was awkward in school; he ran away from home; he threatened people with knives. As an adult, he learned he had Asperger's syndrome, which ...Show more