Hidden Gardens of Paris: A Guide to the Parks, Squares, and Woodlands of the City of Lights by Susan Cahill
$35.00 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
In a city that's the destination of millions, it can be a challenge to find your way to its lovely, serene spaces. Away from the maddening crowds, the gardens of Paris offer the balm of flowers, tall old trees, fountains, sculptures, and the company of quiet Parisians taking the sun, relishing the peace ...Show more
The House in France: A Memoir by Gully Wells
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Category: Narratives/Memoir
In 2009, six years after her mother's death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother - the glamorous, funny, unpredictable and furiously rude American journalist, Dee Wells. Surrounded by the clutter of decades, Gully is taken back to her childhood, to her mo ...Show more
The Shaman in Stilettos by Anna Hunt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
When celebrity journalist Anna Hunt takes a break from her glamorous, high-powered and fast-paced job to live in Peru for three months, none of her friends take her seriously. A burn-the-candle-at-both-ends 29-year-old with a love of stilettos, chocolate, fast cars and Sauvignon Blanc, she seems to have ...Show more
London, You're Beautiful: An Artist's Year by David Gentleman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life. But can you look afresh at the place where you live? Over the past year he has immersed himself in his home city to try and find out. "London, You're Beautiful", the resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
The author of A Walk in the Woods traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world's most advanced scientists and mathematicians to explain why things are the way they are. Reprint.
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The trilogy that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just ...Show more
Into the Wild (FS) by Jon Krakauer
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Category: Narratives/Memoir
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limi ...Show more
Tuscan Secrets: A Bittersweet Adventure by Marlena de Blasi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
From the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, these are the further adventures of Marlena and Fernando and their experiences as they move to a small village in Tuscany. Originally published as Dolce e Salata, this is another delicious combination of authentic Italian life, food, recipes, ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Secret Histories : Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop by Emma Larkin
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Category: Narratives/Memoir
Burma, where George Orwell worked as an officer in the Imperial police force, is currently ruled by one of the oldest and most brutal military dictatorships in the world. Emma Larkin presents a side to the country that the regime does not want revealed: a hidden world that can be found only in whispered ...Show more
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer by John, Warren St
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
An energetic, eye-opening and often hilarious investigation of the way in which sport can turn perfectly sane people in to screaming lunatics, willing to sacrifice almost anything for their team.