Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', 'Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year. He evaded ...Show more
The Mindful Traveller: A memoir about travelling with a full heart, a light foot and a clear conscience by Nina Karnikowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
A stunningly-written memoir and manifesto about the ethics of modern travel, The Mindful Traveller is written by someone best-placed to write about it. In this unique and inspiring book, travel journalist Nina Karnikowski takes an expedition to the very essence of travel, reflecting on the profound and ...Show more
In Sardinia - An Unexpected Journey in Italy by Jeff Biggers
$69.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
"Mr. Biggers is an enthusiastic and erudite guide. Seeking out the past in local lore and in Sardinia's long and overlooked literary tradition, he returns the island to the center of our imaginative map of the Mediterranean." -- The Wall Street Journal "At last, a grand companion to the mysterious a ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
Paris for Beginners: A memoir about love, adventure and finding yourself in the City of Llghts by Rachael Coopes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Gorgeous travel memoir set in Paris from Play School presenter, award-winning screenwriter and author of Find Your Strength, Rachael Coopes. For fans of Eat Pray Love,Almost French and Emily In Paris. 'Enchanting, amusing, life-affirming and wise.' Toni Pearen Sometimes the best compass is to follow you ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neig ...Show more
Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
After backpacking her way around India Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!'. But twelve years later the prophecy comes true. When the love of her life is posted to India, Sarah ...Show more
Out Of Africa: Penguin Essentials by Karen Blixen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought- Here I am, where I ought to be.'From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to ...Show more
A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 'Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS 'Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these t ...Show more
Walking Pepys's London by Jacky Colliss Harvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almo ...Show more
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China by Erika Fatland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prizewinning author Erika Fatland, on a journey along the Himalayas. The Himalayas meander through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless ...Show more
My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life by Janine Marsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: The\Good Life France Ser.
A little more than 10 years ago, Janine Marsh and her husband Mark gave up their city jobs in London to chase the good life in the countryside of northern France. Having overcome the obstacles of starting to renovate her dream home--an ancient, dilapidated barn--and fitting in with the peculiarities of ...Show more