You've Got To Be Kidding: a shedload of wine & a farm full of goats by Todd Alexander
29.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The steep-climb highs and free-fall lows of my rollercoaster rural life They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Well, seven years (60,000 hours) since former city boys Todd and Jeff moved to the country they should have nailed this whole farming gig, right? Yes, they make lovely wine and ...Show more
Zero Risk by Tony Loughran
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Keeping others safe in a dangerous world. We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determinatio ...Show more
34 Patients by Tom Templeton
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Look at the people around you. Now look closer.Is the middle-aged man right to be worried about the twinge in his chest?Why is the little girl coughing? Asthma - or something more serious?And what secret hurts are you carrying yourself?Doctors know our deepest fears, our private worries and our most vul ...Show more
42 The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Kevin Jon Davies (Editor); Douglas Adams
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems...Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's. Reproduced here, in facsimile ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren ...Show more
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes. Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooper ...Show more
A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A memoir about anxiety, our minds, and optimism in spite of it all Where do mental illness stories begin? Anna’s always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings – she’s never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious chi ...Show more
A Life of Extremes - The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker by Max Quinn
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Category: Travel Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Max Quinn's filmmaking career has taken him to the ends of the earth; from his native New Zealand to Alaska; Antarctica to the Arctic. A Life of Extremes is a personal account of his travel and work in these remote locations. It focuses on Max's polar filmmaking experiences, which started in 1991 when h ...Show more
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to "Driving Over Lemons" by Chris Stewart
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Lemons Trilogy
Chris Stewart's "Driving Over Lemons" (9780956003805) told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. "A Parrot in the Pepper Tree", the sequel to "Lemons", fol ...Show more
A Prima Donna's Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland by Joan Sutherland
49.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
A Sharp Left Turn - Notes on a life in music, from Split Enz to Play It Strange by Mike Chunn
37.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A rollicking yarn about the early days of ground-breaking band Split Enz, but also the powerful story of how Mike Chunn dealt with a crippling mental health issue and went on to become one of our most influential music identities. This is a gripping read that works on several levels. It's the sliding-do ...Show more