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  • The Time of Our Lives

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $9.83 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • What Days Are For

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Pleasures of Leisure

    par 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, ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • On Humbug

    par Robert Dessaix ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

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    How should we act?

    par Frank Moorhouse ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Five Bells

    A Novel

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant

    True Tales and Gossip from the Galley

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists

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

    $12.99 CAD

  • Girt

    The Unauthorised History of Australia

    par David Hunt ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Batavia

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

    par 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, ... En savoir plus

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  • One Life

    My Mother's Story

    par Kate Grenville ...
    *NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN’S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELISTKate Grenville often takes inspiration for her fiction from her family history and this extraordinary memoir about the life of her own mother, Nance Russell, reveals why.Born to an unhappy marriage and into a deep... ... En savoir plus

    $16.49 CAD

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