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Primary School Confidential

Mrs Woog

RRP: £14.99

Primary school, that special place where little kids turn into big kids, where letters turn into words, numbers turn into more confusing numbers and lunchboxes turn into bacterial breeding grounds. Wh …

All This in 60 Minutes

Nicholas Lee

RRP: £14.99

For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia’s most-respected and most-watched current affairs program.All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilar …

Prick With a Fork

Larissa Dubecki

RRP: £12.99

Before she was one of Australia’s top restaurant critics, Larissa Dubecki was one of its worst waitresses. A loving homage to her ten-year reign of dining-room terror, Prick With a Fork takes you wher …

Their Promised Land

Ian Buruma

RRP: £9.99

Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school …

Desert Vet

Alex Tinson

RRP: £14.99

When Sydney-born vet Alex Tinson was literally plucked from the Australian outback to become chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President’s racing camels, he was given one mission: to mak …

Finding Sanity

Greg de Moore

RRP: £14.99

In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives – if they survived – in and out of asylums accumulating life’s wreckage around them. But late in …

Paris Undressed

Kathryn Kemp-Griffin

French women seem inherently more confident in their bodies, able to embrace the sensuality of life and love. What’s their secret? Lingerie.Yet, despite an insatiable curiosity for all things French, …

Behind the Tape

Lance Burdett

RRP: £14.99

Lance Burdett was in the police force for twenty-two years, in a variety of high-level roles: head of negotiation team; running 111 centre; intelligence management; protection squad and emergency resp …

The Ambitions of Jane Franklin

Alison Alexander

RRP: £9.99

In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world.Alison Alexander traces the life of this inimitable woman, from her birth in la …

The First Six Weeks

Midwife Cath

RRP: £14.99

Highly experienced midwife Cathryn Curtin has delivered and looked after babies for forty years. Over those four decades she’s come to understand how the first six weeks after birth are vital in setti …

Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

Damien Brown

RRP: £9.99

Damien Brown thinks he’s ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he’s sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the …

Buddhism for Couples

Sarah Napthali

RRP: £8.99

Every now and then – not very often – we meet a woman who has mastered the art of being in a couple, who has managed to keep the flame alive long after the honeymoon period and well into the trials of …

Buddhism for Mothers

Sarah Napthali

RRP: £10.99

Parenthood can be a time of great inner turmoil for a woman, yet parenting books invariably focus on nurturing children rather than the mothers who struggle to raise them. This book is different. It i …

Buddhism for Mothers of Schoolchildren

Sarah Napthali

RRP: £9.99

With her children at school, a mother is on to a new stage of her life, playing a new role. The daily challenges she confronts have changed, yet for each one Buddhist teachings of mindfulness, compass …

Buddhism for Parents On the Go

Sarah Napthali

RRP: £8.99

Within these warm and often funny pages, Buddhist teachings are at their most accessible. Even if exploring Buddhism is not where you thought you’d be right now, read any page of Buddhism for Parents …

Growing Old Outrageously

Elisabeth Davies

RRP: £8.99

Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling – and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whethe …

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