Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression by Sally Brampton
$12.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
I believe that we learn through stories. We learn that we are not alone. Sally Brampton is an optimist. The founding editor of "Elle", a successful journalist and novelist, she loves gardening, friends and life. She is also a depressive. "Shoot the Damn Dog" is a memoir of her journey through depression ...Show more
Ships of Mercy: Bringing Hope and Healing to the World's Forgotten Poor (Don Stephens)
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
There Is No Me Without You - One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children by Melissa Fay Greene
$12.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between children and parents as about the epidemic that every year leav ...Show more
Bill Bryson: The Complete Notes Omnibus Edition by Bryson Bill
$12.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Features such works as Notes from a Small Island, an eulogy to Britain that produced Marmite, milky tea, and Gardeners' Question Time; and Notes from a Big Country that reveals the strange appeal of breakfast pizza, the jaw-slackening direness of US TV, and the answer to the puzzle of why nobody in Amer ...Show more
An Affair to RememberThe Greatest Love Stories of All Time by Kerry Cook
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
All the world loves a lover, so the saying goes. An Affair to Remember is a warm and intimate account of 43 of the world’s greatest love stories – captivating tales of grand passions, charismatic personalities and extraordinary exploits. Some of these affairs shocked the world, others altered the course ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
Elephants and I - Pursuing a Dream in Troubled Zimbabwe by Sharon Pincott
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A true story filled with both joy and foreboding, this portrait of Zimbabwe and its wildlife comes from an Australian woman who went as a tourist to Africa and then decided to leave her old life and live permanently in tumultuous Zimbabwe to work with elephants on land bordering Hwange National Park. No ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This is a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as on ...Show more
Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile by Cityboy
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'Who is Cityboy? He's every brash, suited, FT"-carrying idiot who ever pushed past you on the tube. He's the egotistical buffoon who loudly brags about how much cash he's made on the market at otherwise pleasant dinner parties. He's the greedy, ruthless wanker whose actions are helping turn this world i ...Show more
Dare: What Happens When Fantasies Come True by Tracey Cox
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Just about everyone has sex fantasies - and there are lots of reasons why. In fantasy land, there are no rules and you are in charge of the action. But there's a second type of fantasy - one that won't leave your head and which the truly adventurous want to see through to reality with consequences they ...Show more
Torn Apart by James Patterson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Cory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving little boy. That fateful March morning in 1989 started just like any other but later that day, he started to feel very different and the course of his life was set to change. It started with an irresistible urge to shake his head, and before long, his body became ...Show more