Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthi
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill - A Book by Matthieu Ricard This step-by-step guide to achieving happiness is the most significant book of its kind. A remarkable book. It is hard to imagine a more convincing guide to that elusive thing: happiness.’ Pankaj Mishra Although we are materially better off than [...]
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild
Woolvs in the Sitee: A book by Margaret Wild In a strange and sinister world, Ben is in hiding from the ‘woolvs’. His only ally, Missus Radinski, doesn’t believe the woolvs exist - until it is too late. Alone, Ben must go out into the streets and confront his fears. In Woolvs in the Sitee, [...]
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Cloudstreet - A Book by Tim Winton From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch. For twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home [...]
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
Sylvia - A Book by Bryce Courtenay ‘I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life.’ From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance. Sylvia, with a singing voice that can literally charm the birds [...]
Hot by Michael Leunig
Hot - A Book by Michael Leunig Michael Leunig’s words and pictures were first published in Australia in 1965. He was born in Melbourne and now lives on a farm in north-eastern Victoria. Hot comprises pieces that have previously appeared in the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Product Details : Paperback Book Author: [...]
Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Jane Austen Book Club - A Book by Karen Joy Fowler This book is now a major film. In California’s Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and their [...]
D-E-D DEAD! by Geoffrey McGeachin
D-E-D DEAD! - A Book by Geoffrey McGeachin In D-E-D Dead!, Geoff McGeachin’s riotous adventure thriller, Alby Murdoch - international photographer and Australian special agent - ducks bullets and bombs from Bondi to Bali and back as he attempts to unravel a lethal web of high-level dodgy dealings . . . From the moment Alby [...]
Dj Vu by Susan Fraser
Dj Vu - A Book by Susan Fraser Annie and Marc have abandoned their careers, throwing caution to the wind, to move from Australia to rural France with their nine-year-old son, Charlie. But two years on, their savings are all spent and their marriage is on the rocks. Then, just when it seems things can’t [...]
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
Sushi for Beginners - A Book by Marian Keyes Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards’ career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she’s diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa’s super-organized assistant, worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her [...]
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - A Book by Patrick Suskind ‘Born in sweaty, fetid eighteenth-century Paris, Genouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has ‘the finest nose in Paris and no personal odour’. With wit, a Gothic imagination and considerable originality, Suskind has developed this simple idea into a fantastic tale of murder [...]
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