Named "a genius if there ever was one", Czech refugee Alex Jelinek created Australias 1957 House of the Year in the city of Canberra. This is the story of the house as a home - how it came to be designed, built, and lived in.
Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories
This highly illustrated autobiography tells the story of iconic singer/songwriter Pauline Murray's journey from a small mining village in the North East of England through national recognition as a key member of the early punk scene.
In this down-to-earth, fun and empowering book, Joe Wells talks about his teenage experience of OCD and all the coping mechanisms and treatment options that have worked for him. This updated edition with all-new illustrations includes a brand-new chapter written 16 years later, detailing how Joe overcame his disorder.
With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book that reads like a vivid documentary of a genre defined by dismantling boundaries.
Paper Paradise: Do what you want to do is a roller coaster ride through the sex, drugs and rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s to the high-flying business world of the ’80s and into the ’90s and beyond—with someone who lived it all.
A Malay-Chinese and an Anglo-Australian family become one when the grieving and financially struggling Mrs M invites two Chinese boarders from Ipoh, Malaysia, into her home—Fay and Ping Chao. In so doing, Mrs M irrevocably changes the lives of her daughter and two grandsons, Cas, James and Nick, forever.
This book has everything readers want from a memoir. Lucy Bloom shares her experiences with humour and realness. You feel as if you’re experiencing these things right alongside her. Lucy proves that anyone can lead an extraordinary life.
The first complete, scholarly edition of Beauvoir's essays in English translation Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be ......
The true story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's survival in the Malayanjungle during WWII
Nona Baker stayed behind in the Malayan jungle during WWII and was adopted by Chinese guerrillas. Against all odds, this remarkable, brave young woman, known as Pai Naa (White Nona), remained in the jungle for three years, avoiding capture by the Japanese and betrayal by spies.
