A lively memoir in which Nicholas Hasluck explores the life and times of his elder brother Rollo, an adventurer brimful of bright ideas and his own way of going at things.
An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers.
Gunships suddenly descended, fanning out from a central point around the Iroquois and sending streams of machine-gun fire and rockets into the jungle below.
In the winter of 1948, a poorly educated jack-of-all-trades moved his ever- increasing family to a small vegetable crops farm on the Darling Downs, in Queensland.
Gunships suddenly descended, fanning out from a central point around the Iroquois and sending streams of machine-gun fire and rockets into the jungle below.
'The Autobiography of a Flea' was initally published in 1887, and inspired a film directed by one of the first female pornographic directors from the 1970s.
In her third novel, acclaimed author of 'In Search of Adam' and 'Black Boxes' Caroline Smailes draws upon her own family history for a remarkable and unforgettable story of loss and redemption.
Our modern-day version of an old quotation ';variety is the spice of life' is a fitting description of Jacqueline Lonsdale Cuerton's life story to date.
In the winter of 1948, a poorly educated jack-of-all-trades moved his ever- increasing family to a small vegetable crops farm on the Darling Downs, in Queensland.
By Roane Swindon, 2012/02/24Book Review: Fearlessly Single by Nathi MhlabaSociety is bent on emphasizing the importance of relationships and marriage, so how can a single Christian woman cope in such a world?
Losing a job always delivers a hard blow, but it was especially hard for forty-something author Louise Lewis, one of many victims of the technology industry's dotcom implosion.
With an introduction by Steve MartinTwo pages into the script and an ache has developed in my gonads - I am both laughing out loud and agonized by the fact that the Withnail part is such a corker that not in a billion bank holidays will they ever seriously consider me.
THE OLD LADY OF VINE STREET REVEALEDThese days the notion of a free press is almost an entirely foreign concept, and its ever-diminishing presence in our society has shown itself to be a thief of true democracy.
A man from Arizona buys a piece of land in the middle of a lava field while vacationing in Hawaii and returns to the island to find a deeper sense of home and build his midlife crisis tropical dream house.
When author Danny Clune was seven years old, he experienced a traumatic accident that changed the course of his lifeIt left a hole in his life that he would spend a lifetime repairing.
Global Woman: A Groundbreaking Anthology Examining the Impact of Globalization on Women's Lives WorldwideIn this remarkable pairing, renowned social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild offer Global Woman, a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide.
Comedian, astronaut candidate and general troublemaker Josh Richards knows his days on Earth are numbered: short-listed from over 200,000 applicants for the first human mission to Mars, and launching without any hope of ever returning, it's increasingly likely he'll die on the red planet.
This is the story of how a young high school student, through a quirk of fate, begins walking down a path that leads him to become a rural family doctor in Montana.
