Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography
Leonard Cohen's music is studded with allusions to Jewish and Christian tradition, as well as Kabbalah and Zen. In his 1994 classic 'Hallelujah' he opens with the words 'Now I've heard there was a secret chord, That David played, and it pleased the Lord - the baffled king composing Hallelujah'. As the ...Show more
Olive Pink: Artist, Activist & Gardener by Gillian Ward
$50.00 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography
This beautiful selection of flower paintings by colourful and feisty Australian figure Olive Pink are a striking, if little known, part of her unique historic legacy. Olive Pink: Artist, Activist & Gardener presents a superb selection of original paintings of the iconic flowers of the Central Austra ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate: The Joys of Friendship, Gardening and the Gaining of Wisdom by Kate Llewellyn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography
A deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal. In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?' Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterl ...Show more
Daffodil - Biography of a Flower by Helen O'Neill
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and ...Show more
Six Square Metres : Reflections from a Small Garden by Margaret Simons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Life lessons from the ground up. Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening. In this thoughtful and beautifully observe ...Show more
Cottage Under the Big Pines 2nd hand by Susan Southam
$69.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
Susan Southam allows readers to look through the window of Foxgloves Spires her former home of 30 years, located in rural Australia and into the lushly romantic and soul-filled interior within. The Cottage Under the Big Pines tells the nostalgic love story between Southam and her restored century-old ti ...Show more
Stuart Rattle's Musk Farm by Paul Bangay
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography
A haven. A work of art. A legacy. In 1998 Australian designer Stuart Rattle purchased the dilapidated Musk schoolhouse and surrounding grounds. Over the following few decades it was to become his most enduring project - a true labour of love, with every detail of the buildings and grounds carefully cons ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate by Kate Llewellyn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography
In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?'Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterlily) and north of Wollongong (Playing with Water), Kate creates a new garden ne ...Show more
Chasing the Rose - An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside by Andrea Di Robilant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir/Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the best-selling "A Venetian Affair," here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy today, brought to ...Show more
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