Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre by Liao Yiwu
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29.99 (66% off)
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A "memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square" (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time" (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written ...Show more
Butterfly on a Pin: A Memoir of Love, Despair and Reinvention by Alannah Hill
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32.99 (69% off)
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'Raw and real and funny and sad - I could not put this book down' - Jane Kennedy'You might expect fluff and fashion ... what you get is harrowing, full-strength, funny and deeply satisfying - Zoë Foster BlakeUnflinching, funny, shocking, inspiring and tender: this is a story like no other.Alannah Hill ...Show more
Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
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Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal. Everything abo ...Show more
Christine's Ark by Christine And Little Townend
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32.95 (69% off)
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Christine Townend is an extraordinary Australian. Animals and their protection have been her life's work.In the 1980s she founded Animal Liberation in Australia, in an attempt to prevent cruel farming practices. It made her a highly controversial figure, yet Christine never turned away from her mission ...Show more
Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life by Matt Morgan
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32.99 (69% off)
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'This book offers real insight into life and death medicine' - Dr. Michael MosleyCritical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it.Being critically ill means one or more of your v ...Show more
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. "I ...Show more
Debrett's : A Modern Royal Marriage by Debrett s
14.99 AUD
45.00 (66% off)
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Debrett's, Britain's leading authority on the peerage and Royal Family, commemorates and celebrates the year of the Royal Wedding
Don't Call Us Carnies: We are Showies and damn proud of it by Norma Brophy, Wendy Stuart
6.99 AUD
29.99 (76% off)
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While many Australian teenagers have dreamed of joining a travelling circus, Norma Brophy wanted to run away from it. As a born and bred 'show person', she adored her early years on the road, running wild in town after town with her fellow little 'showies'. But growing up backstage of a famed travelling ...Show more
Father Fiction by Donald Miller
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Donald Miller's dad left when he was very young. From that point onwards, Donald felt different. Different from the other boys in his class; different from the other boys at camp. He discovered that growing up without a father to show him the ropes is hard work. Dads have crucial wisdom to impart to the ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by -
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From Esquire comes a stunning collection of often moving essays about fatherhood. Eleven award-winning and notable authors reflect on manhood through memories of their own fathers and their personal experience of raising sons. Compelling and eloquent, these are some of the magazine's most emotionally po ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
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'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
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Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more