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At My French Table : Food, Family and Joie De Vivre in a Corner of Normandy order quantity
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Author: Jane Webster (photography Nikole Ramsay & Mark Roper)
Published by: Viking (Penguin)
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In 2005 Jane Webster sold her house in Melbourne and moved to a rather run-down chateau in France. We see the chateau restored to its former glory, meet the local characters and discover the produce of Normandy at Jane's table - with 40 regional recipes.

First published 2008.
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Green Granny's Garden: A Year of the Good Life in Grey Lynn order quantity
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Author: Fiona Hill
Published by: harper collins
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While Fionna will be the first to tell you she's not actually a Granny in the biological sense, she is most definitely a wise woman of the world who meets all the criteria for anyone's favourite Gran.

When she decided to improve her health and grow her own food she had to find somewhere to grow it. Living in urban Auckland severely limited her options. While she could manage window boxes of micro-greens, she yearned for more space - and was utterly delighted to eventually find herself with a plot in the Grey Lynn Community Garden.

Written from her experiences over the course of a year (give or take a few weeks) she documents the sheer delight and pleasure of exploring urban gardening as a beginner in a communal environment. The experience has brought her immense joy and some wild and wonderful moments of unexpected humour. In a breathtakingly honest, direct and fabulously original and delightfully wacky way, she takes the ... more
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Gweilo : Memories of a Hong Kong childhood order quantity
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Author: Martin Booth
Published by: Bantam Books UK
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An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair that signified good luck to the Chinese, he had free access to hidden corners of the colony normally closed to a Gweilo, a 'pale fellow' like him. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learnt Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in colourful festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into the secret lair of the Triads and visited an opium den. Along the way he encountered a colourful array of people, from the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, a drunken child molester, and the Queen of Kowloon, the crazed tramp who may have been a member of the Romanov family. Shadowed by the ... more
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I've Never Made a Christmas Pudding order quantity
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Author: Vivienne Pascoe
Published by: Pascoe Publishing
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In this companion volume, she traces her earlier life within the context of two generations before her. A story that spans her grandfather leaving Liverpool for Australia in 1855, her uncle as a padre at Gallipoli and her father playing cricket for New Zealand, to her own upbringing, early pangs of jealousy for her old sister, her music study in pre-war London and the tribulations and triumph of love in Africa.
First published July 2006.
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Keeping Mum : A wartime childhood order quantity
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Author: Brian Thompson
Published by: Atlantic Books
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Mum and Dad - Squibs and Bert - were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson as he grew up in Cambridge and London during the 1940s. His mother danced with the Yanks all night and slept under a fake fur coat all day, and when his father bothered to come home he resolutely discouraged Brian in everything. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.

In Keeping Mum Brian Thompson describes a boyhood as rich and mysterious as anything fiction can provide.

First published 2006.
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9781869793913

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Rebel With A Cause : New Zealander of the year order quantity
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Author: Ray Avery
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Ray Avery is an amazing person. He is the current New Zealander of the Year because of his clever work in the third world using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations, cheap and more effective incubators for babies and other creative scientific solutions. His childhood was very 'Angela's Ashes' - brought up in an orphanage (his own mother had tried to sell him), then ran away and lived on the streets. But Ray went on to become a scientist, a millionaire, very successful businessman and now someone who literally does help to change the world. During the mid-nineties Ray spent most of his time working in Eritrea and Nepal setting up two world class Intraocular lens laboratories. At that time the cost of an Intraocular lenses was about US$300 but Ray managed to put the technology together to produce lenses for under US$10.00 making modern Cataract surgery accessible to the poor throughout Africa and ... more
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9780732279837
Absurdistan : A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places order quantity
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Author: Eric Campbell
Published by: HarperCollins Australia
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A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places.

An award-winning journalist's gritty and compelling account of life reporting from the edge.

As a foreign correspondent for ABC television, Eric Campbell covered Boris Yeltsin's drunken demise in Russia, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and the public madness in Britain following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He's been arrested, drugged, robbed, stoned by the Taliban, threatened with expulsion from China and thrown into a variety of tricky situations - such as dating in Moscow and eating a sheep's head (while hung over) in Afghanistan. In 2003, while covering the war in Iraq, he was wounded in a suicide bombing which killed his cameraman and friend, Paul Moran.

Absurdistan, Eric's first book, documents the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth while juggling life, ... more
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A Fortunate Life order quantity
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Author: A. B. Facey
Published by: Penguin Books (AU) Ltd.
In Stock: 1
Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a 'fortunate' one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the story of a life lived to the full - the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
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Africa My Youth order quantity
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Author: Dick Knight
Published by: Pacific Publishing
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9780141001647
A House Unlocked order quantity
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Author: Penelope Lively
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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“Every house tells a story,” says novelist Penelope Lively. Her social history and memoir delves into the domestic past of her former home in Somerset, showing it to be full of stories. A House Unlocked is an eloquent and engaging examination of England’s past and present.
 
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