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  • The Time of Our Lives

    by Robert Dessaix ...
    What’s the key to the art of growing older well? Is it an art that anyone can cultivate? How should we confront dying and death in a secular age? What about sex when we’re older? What about loneliness? (And, for that matter, what about facelifts?)At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose ... Read more

    $7.12 USD

  • What Days Are For

    by Robert Dessaix ...
    Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers.One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • The Pleasures of Leisure

    by Robert Dessaix ...
    In today’s crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work–life balance further; increasingly, people feel that only work gives existence meaning. In a world where time is money, what is the value of walking without purpose, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • On Humbug

    by Robert Dessaix ...
    Series series On Series
    With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world-the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    How should we act?

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    ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO.This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist alert level to ‘high’ we are facing the question of what degree of terrorist threat we are prepared ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Five Bells

    A Novel

    by Gail Jones ...
    A Picador Paperback OriginalOn a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water.But just as Circular Quay resonates with Australia's past, each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere. Each person is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant

    True Tales and Gossip from the Galley

    by Owen Beddall, Libby Harkness ...
    Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley!Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead – flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-star hotels, daytime lazing around the pool and night-time tabletop dancing with Bollywood stars. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail

    by James Phelps ...
    Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls.Opened in 1909 Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history.From ghosts to legendary prisoners, there has been an infamous collection of Long Bay 'guests', including the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists

    by Jane Rawson ...
    It is 1997 in San Francisco and Simon and Sarah have been sent on a quest to see America: theymust stand at least once in every 25-foot square of the country. Decades later, in an Australian citythat has fallen on hard times, Caddy is camped by the Maribyrnong River, living on small changefrom odd jobs, ersatz vodka and memories. She's sick of being hot, dirty, broke and alone.Caddy's future ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Shame and the Captives

    A Novel

    by Thomas Keneally ...
    “If the legendary Schindler’s List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally’s literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will” (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the largest and bloodiest prison escape of World War II.Alice is living on her father-in-law’s farm on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Girt

    The Unauthorised History of Australia

    by David Hunt ...
    Series Book 1 - The Unauthorised History of Australia
    Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: 'It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Batavia

    from the author of The Opera House, Ned Kelly and Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter Fitzsimons ...
    Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD