The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen Augusta is a twin to Julia and the two are united but polar opposites in every sense. Augusta is intellectual and grows up feeling she doesn’t belong in her English small town. On the other side of the globe in the African country of Burundi, Parfait […]
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Bone and Beauty the Ribbon Boys’ Rebellion by Jeanette M. Thompson A well-researched piece of oft-forgotten Australian history, crafted into a very readable and digestible narrative non-fiction. In 1830, an Irish group of rebels, the Ribbon Boys, liberate eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and lead them inland to freedom. Needless to say, Governor Darling is
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Napoleon’s Beekeeper by José Luis de Juan, translated by Elizabeth Bryer An award-winning, poetical and lyrical novella exploring of how Napoleon’s war strategies parallel the behaviour of bee colonies. Set during his exile on the island of Elbe, it is told from the perspective of both N. and the local beekeeper and interweaves recorded history
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Have you ever wondered where the idea of bookshelves came from or how books were made before Gutenberg invented his moveable type or how books were catalogued before the Dewey Decimal System came into being? This small volume is a tour de force through the history of all these aspects of reading and more starting,
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne Simon Winchester The film The Professor and the Madman (starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn) was based on this book. The film follows the story of the two men who were the most instrumental in crating the original Oxford English Dictionary, an mammoth achievement is pre-computer days, made more so when
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This is the most fun I’ve had reading a book in years. It’s funny, whimsical, a parody, a leg-pull. I learnt about the history and current use and interpretation of modern typography without glazing over. Public signage will never be the same again. And a hoot of a murder mystery as well. All by a local
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A recent article in the Age (date) and the Guardian newspaper (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/24/james-bond-on-film-ranked) have posed this question along with who is/was the best 007? With the 25th installment of this franchise -No Time To Die, due out later this year, see our latest window display features many of the titles and classic covers from many of
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To celebrate the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival month we are offerings massive 30% off all cookery and wine books – spend $60 or more and mention seeing this on our new website and receive an additional 5% off your total purchases
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Jane Austen meets Charles Dickens in the dark underbelly of small-town Tasmania. The loggers are pitched against the Park Rangers. The bolshie men against their hungry families. And not only are the ancient trees at risk, but the girl before the take-away counter is silently enslaved. Can the new Parkie from out of town be
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Desire Lines by Felicity Volk An epic truth-telling of love and lies and longing wrapped around Australia’s memorable points in recent history, starting with the stolen and forgotten generations. To quote page 299: In the end, the heart knows what it wants and it won’t be stopped. Beautifully crafted.
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