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Title: Half Broke Horses

Author: Jeannette Walls

Binding: PB

ISBN: 9781847376756

RRP: $32.99

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Jeannette Walls' grandmother - born in 1901 in the rolling grassland of West Texas - was a feisty, straight-talking heroine for whom saving lives, taming wild horses and beating ranch hands at poker were all part of a day's work. In reading this debut novel, readers will love and marvel at the fearlessness, courage, and wicked sense of humour of this intrepid woman and true adventurer.

 

Title: I Blame Duchamp

Author: Edmund Capon

Binding: HB

ISBN: 9781920989620

RRP: $49.95

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Edmund Capon, long-time director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, reflects upon art and artists in the contemporary era and tells the stories behind some of his most controversial acquisitions. As well as critiquing the conceptual art scene, Capon discusses subjects ranging from football to Confucius. I Blame Duchamp also features more than fifty beautiful reproductions of paintings and drawings from collections around the world.

 

Title: Life On Pittwater, A

Author: Susan Duncan

Binding: HB

ISBN: 9781741666694

RRP: $59.95

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In her bestselling Salvation Creek, Susan Duncan described her move to Pittwater. Now Susan lives in Tarangaua, the gracious house built for Dorothea Mackellar in 1925. A Life On Pittwater takes the reader on a memorable trip to this beguiling place and presents all aspects of its distinctive way of life. Susan's text describes the life with warmth and heart and the stunning photography by Anthony Ong captures its unique beauty. This glorious book will make you smile as you lose yourself to the magic of Pittwater.

 

Title: Blaze Of Obscurity, The : The Tv Years (unreliable Memoirs V)

Author: Clive James

Binding: PB

ISBN: 9780330511056

RRP: $34.95

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Despite the fact that Clive James' adventures with the written word took place before, during and after his time on the small screen, for many he will always be a TV presenter. But why not have the best of both worlds? The Blaze of Obscurity tells the inside story of his years in television, showing Clive on top form, and proving - once and for all - that, whatever the medium, Clive has a way with word.

 

Title: Mind And Times Of Reg Mombassa, The

Author: Murray Waldren

Binding: HB

ISBN: 9780732287894

RRP: $75.00

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Long before he played with Mental As Anything or transformed shirts into collector's items, Reg Mombassa was first and foremost an artist. Murray Waldren's illuminated journey reveals Mombassa's wit, sense of mischief and larrikin energy. The book features more than original 300 artworks as well as photographs, posters and band memorabilia.
Also available in a deluxe slipcased edition ($200.00), limited to 1000, for the serious collector!

 

Title: Manhood For Amateurs

Author: Michael Chabon

Binding: PB

ISBN: 9780007257874

RRP: $32.99

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What does it mean to be a man today? In his first sustained work of personal writing, Michael Chabon presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience - as a series of memories, regrets and re-examinations, each set off by an encounter in the present that holds some legacy of the past. Reflecting on his experience as a son, a husband, and a father of four young children, Manhood For Amateurs is at once dazzling, hilarious and moving

 

Title: Nine Lives

Author: William Dalrymple

Binding: PB

ISBN: 9781408801536

RRP: $35.00

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A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfilment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as a deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales.


 

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