Choose 7 pre-loved books from the following list:
- A Town like Paris - Living and Loving in the City of Light | Bryce Corbett
- In Xanadu - A Quest | William Dalrymple
- Up we Grew - Stories of Australian Childhoods | Pamela Bone
- Waveman - A true story of the enormous possibilities that open up when you follow your own path | Robert Redenbach
- The Mesmerist - The Society Doctor who held Victorian London Spellbound | Wendy Moore
- A Year in the life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess - 1 husband,8 children, 1,000 sheep... | Amanda Owen
- Crossing The Ditch - Two mates, a kayak and the conquest of the Tasman |James Castrission
- Always looking up - The Adventures of an Incurable Optmist | Michael J.Fox
- Well Done, those Men - Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran
- JUnbroken Trust - The Forbidden Goodbye of a Husbands Suicide | Jill Anderson
- Deranged Marriage - a memoir | Suhi Das
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A Town like Paris - Living and Loving in the City of Light | Bryce Corbett
At the end of a nine-year relationship, stuck in a dead-end job and on the run from his broken heart, Australian journalist Bryce Corbett left London for Paris, Home of Lámour and La vie boheme. Arriving with only a suitcase and school-boy French, he finds himself an apartment and slowly launches himself into la vie parisienne. It doesn't take Bryce long to discover his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France-either with Parisienne women for French plumbers. Bryce might just discover that with he came to France looking for was a lot closer to home than he had ever imagined.
In Xanadu - A Quest | William Dalrymple
"William Dalrymple's In Xanadu carries us breakneck from a pre-dawn glimmer in the Holy Sepulchre right across Asia to a bleak wind in Kubla Khan's palace... it is learned and comic, and a most gifted first book touches by the spirits of Kingslake, Robert Byron and W.Waugh"
Up we Grew - Stories of Australian Childhoods
Resilience. Why do some children in difficult circumstances seem blessed with it, while others struggles to cope with life? And are Australian children generally less resilient than they used to be? In Up We Grew, award-winning journalist Pamela Bone explores these questions through the prism of her own experience as daughter, sister and mother.
Waveman-A true story of the enormous possibilities that open up when you follow your own path | Robert Redenbach
Waveman is an inspirational roadmap on personal development,leadership and much more. Robert Redenbach takes us on an extraordinary journey from a small town in country Victoria through the jungles of Malaysia, the townships of South Africa and Baghdad's Red Zone. Along the way he brushes up against Nelson Mandela, the FBI and an assortment of larter-thank-life characters.
The Mesmerist - The Society Doctor who held Victorian London Spellbound | Wendy Moore
Medicine, in the early 1800's was a brutal business. Operations were preformed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy. Onto the scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a hodge-podge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new magazine, The Lancet, and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice. Then in the summer of 1837, a Frence visitor-the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet-arrived in London to promote an exotic new idea; mesmerism. The mesmerism mania would take the nation by storm but would ultimately split the two friends, and the medical world, asunder-throwing into focus fundamental questions about the fine line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition.
A Year in the life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess - 1 husband, 8 children, 1,000 sheep...
Every day at Ravenseat, a remote Yorkshire hill farm, brings new adventures for shepherdess Amanda Owen, her husband Clive and their children. In her latest book Amanda describes how they live in tune with the age-old cycles of a farming year as they tend their sheep on some of the country's highest, bleakest moors. Writing with her trademark warmth and humor, Amanda also reveals how nine-year-old Miles got his first flock. Reuben took up the flugelhorn and how she gave birth to a new baby girl. She is touched by the epic two-day journey of a ewe determined to find her lamb and gives a new home to an ageing neglected horse. Meanwhile, Clive is almost arrested on a midnight stakeout to catch a sheep-worrying dog and becomes the object of affection for a randy young bull. Beautifully evoking the landscape of the Dales and the hardy folk who farm there. A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess will delight everyone who has dreamed of living close to nature.
Crossing The Ditch - Two mates, a kayak, and the conquest of the Tasman | James Castrission
With more than 2000km of treacherous seas and dangerously unpredictable weather and currents, it was little wonder on-one had ever successfully crossed the Tasman by kayak. Australian adventurer Andrew McAuley had come close just months earlier-tragically, though, not near enough to save his life. But two young Sydneysiders, James Castrission and Justin Jones, reached the sand at New Plymouth-and a place in history- on 13 January 2008, 62 days after they'd set off from Forester on the mid-north coast of NSW. In the process, they had to face swindling food supplies, a string of technical problems, 14 days trapped in a whirlpool, and two terrifying close encounters with sharks. When they arrived in New Zealand, their friendship stronger than ever, they were sunburnt, bearded, physically and mentally wasted..... and most of all happy to be alive.
Always looking up - The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist | Michael J.Fox
"As I awaken, before my conscious mind really knows what's happening, my body has already gotten the news to twist and contort... At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame... This relected version of myself, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "what are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: It just gets better from here. For everything Parkinson's has taken, something with greater value has been given-something just a marker that points me in a new direction tha I might have not otherwise have traveled. So sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with this disease, I've learned that what is important is making that one step count- always looking up."
Well Done, those Men - Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran | Barry Heard
In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experience as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades, to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact it would have on them. It is also a vivid and searingly honest portrayal of the author's post-war, slow-motion breakdown, and how he dealt with it.
Unbroken Trust - The Forbidden Goodbye of a Husbands Suicide | Jill Anderson
In 2005, Jill Anderson went on trial at Leeds Crown Court for the manslaughter of her husband of eight years. Paul, 43, had been suffering for years with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with complications, and he had previously attempted suicide. But one day, while Jill was out of the house, he took enough pills to ensure his own death. She had saved his life several times before, but this time she honored her beloved partner's wishes that he be allowed to die and, although consumed by grief, allowed him to slip away. Then the full weight of the law came down on her. She was interrogated by police, had her passport taken away and faced up to 15yrs in jail. Her story was followed by the nation's media and, although too unwell to take the stand at her trial, she was acquitted by a unanimous not guilty verdict.
Deranged Marriage - a memoir | Sushi Das
Sushi Das grew up in 1970's London-a culturally messed-up time. Feminists were telling women they could be whatever they wanted, skinheads were yelling forgiveness to go home and punk music was urging revolt. Amid the social upheavel, Sushi was trapped by Indian traditin-and a looming arranged marriage she would do almost anything to avoid. But how do you turn your back on centuries of tradition without trashing your family's honour? How do you escape your parent's stranglehold without casting of their embrace? And how do you explain to your strict dad why there's a boy smoking in his living room and another one lurking in the garden?
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