The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding by His Daughter by Judy Golding
$39.99 AUD
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'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.' Proverb Bestselling novelist, author of "Lord of the Flies", William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter? In this frank and engaging family memoir, Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes ...Show more
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: an education in war by Megan Stack
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A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-r ...Show more
No Time for Fear: How a Shark Attack Survivor beat the Odds by Gelder Paul De
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Paul de Gelder lost his right arm and leg to a violent shark attack in Sydney Harbour when he was going about his work as a Navy clearance diver in February 2009. He was lucky to survive, let alone resume work as a diver. His life up to the attack had already been a pretty wild ride, with a madcap escap ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles (#2) by Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and he emerged as one of the most promising comi ...Show more
Beautiful Thing : Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer by Sonia Faleiro
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When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find- downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty. Instead she meets Leela- nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay's bars since she wa ...Show more
Edith Sitwell : Avant Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene
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Born into a privileged family of eccentrics, Edith Sitwell set out during the years of the Great War to create a life in the arts. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein, she ran an unlikely London literary salon that attracted most of the great writers and artists ...Show more
Playing the Shape Game: A Life in Picture Books with the Children's Laureate by Anthony Browne
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Anthony Browne is one of the world's most celebrated creators of picture books, with classics such as "Voices in the Park", "Willy and Hugh", and "Gorilla" to his name. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice, the Kurt Maschler 'Emil' Award three times, and in 2000 became the first British illustrator ...Show more
The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783 by Jane Brown
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Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influ ...Show more
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto
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In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered, along with six of his associates. In December 2007, Benaz ...Show more
Dear Zari : Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna Kargar
$35.00 AUD
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In 2001 Zarghuna Kargar came to the UK as an asylum-seeker. She and her family were forced to leave their home in Kabul during the civil war and then spent several years as refugees in Pakistan. Zarghuna trained as a journalist with BBC Worldwide in Peshawar, and when she came to London she quickly got ...Show more
When My Husband Does the Dishes...: A Memoir of Marriage and Motherhood by Kerri Sackville
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'When My Husband Does the Dishes ...is about love in real life. It's about what marriage looks like after three children and 150 years of togetherness. It's about little white lies and boxer shorts on the floor and eating frankfurts for dinner every night. It's my life. And I suspect it could be yours t ...Show more