The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Other Mother: A Tale of Love, Nits and Blended Families by Kelly Chandler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For Kelly, meeting the right guy was pretty straightforward - becoming a 'spare mum' to his two sons was more daunting. It had taken long enough to get on with her own stepmum, and now Kelly suddenly found herself sharing responsibility for two mini-humans. Her party days gave way to early starts, jokes ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
The Long Run by Catriona Menzies-Pike
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
No one ever expected Catriona Menzies-Pike to run a marathon. She hated running, and was a hopeless athlete. When she was twenty her parents died suddenly - and for a decade she was stuck. She started running on a whim, and finally her grief started to move too. Until very recently, it was frowned upon ...Show more
The Little Book of Hope by ADE DJAJAMIHARDJA AND KATE STEPHENS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ade Djajamihardja had the perfect home, the perfect partner, and was at the height of his dream career in film and television when, in a matter of seconds, his life was utterly transformed. Following a massive haemorrhage stroke, Ade was left paralysed, unable to move, eat or even read. Top of the world ...Show more
The Legacy of Luther by R. C. Sproul; Stephen J. Nichols (Editor)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Martin Luther was one of the most influential men of his day. When he posted a series of theses on the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany, he was merely inviting debate. He set off something much larger. The Protestant Reformation that began with his posting of the Ninety-Five Theses reshaped Eur ...Show more
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne De Courcy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
The Green Bell by Paula Keogh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It's 1972 in Canberra. Michael Dransfield is being treated for a drug addiction; Paula Keogh is delusional and grief-stricken. They meet in a psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital and instantly fall in love. Paula recovers a self that she thought was lost; Michael, a radical poet, is caught up in a ...Show more
Great Composers: The Lives and Music of the Great Classical Composers by Jeremy Nicholas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The lives and works of the great classical composers.