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Title: How To Amputate A Leg And Other Ways To Stay Out Of Trouble
Author: Nathan Mullins
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9781742370378
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Nathan Mullins is an ex-cop, ex-soldier, ex-security consultant and an Australian Aid International volunteer. He's experienced all sorts of dangerous stuff involving guns, explosions, surgical procedures, combat, sword-play, rioting and other potentially life-threatening behaviours. He has been lucky to survive some of his assignments and hijinks, so he decided to share a few cautionary tales so everyone else can learn from his near misses.
Title: Mama Mia : A Memoir Of Mistakes, Magazines And Motherhood
Author: Mia Freedman
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9780732281892
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Mia Freedman was always in a hurry to kick her big life goals. And when she became editor of Cosmopolitan at 24 and had a baby a few months later, she thought she was right on track. But when things unexpectedly fell apart, she was forced to face a few uncomfortable truths about who she was and what she wanted to do with her life. Over the next decade, she experienced some dazzling career highs and some devastating personal lows. She left the glamorous world of magazines for a new high-profile job that exploded in her face. As a writer, magazine editor, popular blogger and media personality, Mia has been called the voice of her generation. Mama Mia is her story so far.
Title: On Some Faraway Beach : The Life And Times Of Brian Eno
Author: David Sheppard
Binding: TPB
ISBN: 9780752884639
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For some, he is a pretentious art-school type who produces 'instrumental doodles' or 'jazz that nobody asked for'. For others, he is a lightning rod or touchstone for directions in popular music and culture over the last four decades. Either way, what is certain is that Brian Eno's address book is a who's who of rock and pop of last thirty years. From an idiosyncratic Suffolk childhood to the sharp end of the international pop charts, Eno's life has been colourful and fascinating. A founding member of Roxy Music, he's worked with everyone from Talking Heads and U2 to Pavarotti and David Bowie, and is often billed as the founding father of ambient music. He continues to release his own records, frequently appears as a cultural commentator and still produces. On Some Faraway Beach is the compelling biography of a fascinating character.
Title: Real Possibility Of Joy, The : A Personal Journey From Man To Woman
Author: Josephine Emery
Binding: TPB
ISBN: 9781741966107
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Josephine Emery is a proud, confident woman, and a successful Australian writer and film-maker. But she was once a confused and terrified little boy on an isolated farm in South Australia, who prayed to God to make him into a girl. This is the story of her voyage, from working in desert mining and construction camps, to marriage as a man and fatherhood, struggles with her family and eventual reconciliation with her dying mother. This is a searing account of the author's physical, spiritual and emotional journey from man to woman.
Title: She Played Elvis : A Pilgrimage To Graceland
Author: Shady Cosgrove
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9781741757248
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She Played Elvis is the story of a trip that Shady, a young American immigrant to Australia, undertakes with her Australian boyfriend to rediscover her homeland. As part of the journey, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage across America, travelling on Greyhound buses, to get to Graceland for the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. As they travel across America, memories of her past begin to surface and Shady realises that while she is coming to understand the meaning of 'home', she is also untangling the knotted threads of her difficult relationship with her estranged, erratic, unreliable and often violent father. A moving, witty and original meditation on the idea of pilgrimage, family, home and loss, She Played Elvis is a classic road story and a journey of self-discovery set to an Elvis soundtrack.
Title: Slippery Year, The : Finding Beauty And Happiness In Everyday Life
Author: Melanie Gideon
Binding: TPB
ISBN: 9781409114321
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Have you ever sat across the breakfast table from your husband and wondered, 'How did I get here?' Do the things that once made you complete now feel like a burden? Is the life you are leading an unrecognisable version of the one you imagined for yourself not so very long ago? Welcome to the world of Melanie Gideon. The Slippery Year chronicles a year in which Gideon confronts both the fantasies of her receding youth and the realities of midlife with a husband, child and a dog. With wit, tenderness, and unsparing honesty, Gideon captures that moment in our lives when the magic starts to ebb. It is the story of a woman's quest to reignite passion, beauty and mystery, and discover if 'happily ever after' is a possibility after all.
Title: Summertime
Author: J. M. Coetzee
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781741669022
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry, evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. Sometimes heartbreaking, often very funny, Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
Title: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Binding: TPB
ISBN: 9780330511261
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Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire, and elsewhere. Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the most storied episodes of Thompson's life: a savage beating at the hands of the Hells Angels, talking football with Nixon on the 1972 Campaign, and his unlikely run for Sheriff of Aspen. Elsewhere, passionate tirades about journalism, culture, guns, drugs, and the law showcase Thompson's voice at its fiercest. Arranged chronologically, and prefaced with Anita Thompson's moving account of her husband's last years, the interviews present Hunter in all his fractured brilliance and provide an exceptional portrait of his times.
Title: High Society : Grace Kelly And Hollywood
Author: Donald Spoto
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9780091796396
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As one of the silver screen's most iconic stars, Grace Kelly will be remembered not only for her enduring beauty, but also for modernising the actor's relationship with movie studios. Her departure from Hollywood marked the end of the Golden Age. Drawing on a series of taped interviews with Grace Kelly that have never before been published, Donald Spoto examines the transformation of a convent girl from Philadelphia to European princess. Spoto also draws on interviews conducted with a range of people - from James Stewart and Cary Grant to Fred Zinnemann, who directed Grace in her first major movie as the wife of Gary Cooper in High Noon. Much has been written about her personal life, and there have been wild allegations about her romantic history. With great sensitivity and insight, Donald Spoto examines her key relationships, not only with the men who loved her, but with great directors, like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, who helped make her an enduring star of motion pictures.
Title: Theory Of Moments, A
Author: James Knight
Binding: TPB
ISBN: 9780733623882
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James Knight was almost forty and tired of simply existing; for him there had to be more to life than pay packets and keeping up with the Joneses. As a bipolar sufferer who'd had some significant battles, he'd learnt to appreciate the importance of living in the moment. After talking to his wife, Clare, about how he was feeling, they decided to turn their backs on a comfortable existence in Sydney's middle-class suburbia for a year-long backpackers' trip through South America and Africa, with pit-stops in New York and the UK. James and Clare would do volunteer work, learn Spanish and dance wherever and whenever they could.
Title: Unforgiving Minute, The : A Soldier's Education
Author: Craig M. Mullaney
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781594202025
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One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, Captain Craig Mullaney and his platoon were caught in a deadly firefight with Al Qaeda fighters when a message came over the radio: one of his soldiers had been killed in action. Mullaney's education had been relentlessly preparing him for this moment. The four years he spent at West Point and the harrowing test of Ranger School readied him for a career in the Army. His subsequent experience as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford couldn't have been further from the Army and his working class roots, and yet the unorthodox education he received there would be surprisingly relevant as a combat leader. Years later, after that unforgettable experience in Afghanistan, he would return to the United States to teach history to future Navy and Marine Corps officers at the Naval Academy. He had been in their position once, and he had put his education to the test. How could he use his life-changing experience prepare them? The Unforgiving Minute is, above all, an unforgettable portrait of a young soldier grappling with the weight of his hard-earned knowledge while coming to grips with becoming a man.
Title: Half Broke Horses
Author: Jeannette Walls
Binding: PB
ISBN: 9781847376756
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.