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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.