To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories from the Heart by Hetty McKinnon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian/Indian/Thai/Malaysian/Chinese/Japanese | Reading Level: near fine
'To Asia, With Love is my homecoming, a joyous return to the humble, yet deeply nurturing flavours and meals of my childhood as a Chinese girl born in Australia. It is also a celebration of the exciting and delicious possibilities of modern Asian cooking.'Recipes range from the traditional - salt and pe ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minis ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: Transgender | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
"A compelling and vivid look at the friendships we make as women. Honest, unsettling and, like all good literature, had me asking questions about life and myself." Heather Rose, austhor of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. People went on about death bringing friends together, b ...Show more
Putney by Sofka Zinovieff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In the spirit of Notes on a Scandal and Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People, an explosive, powerful novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship. A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Gr ...Show more
My Year Of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. 'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our liv ...Show more
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
'You'll recognise every character in Whisper Network. Furious and relevant writing: the ultimate #metoo book. I loved it so much.' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'If only you had listened to us, none of this would have happened.' Sloane, Ardie, Grace and Rosalita have worked in the same legal office for years. The su ...Show more
Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pearl remembers Nell's feet stretched towards the campfires on the beach, her fourth toe curled in and nestled against the middle toe like a small prawn. They all have a curled fourth toe - Diana, Lucy, Pearl. When Pearl's grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, Pearl and her family - mother Diana, sister L ...Show more
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: near fine
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a ...Show more