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Julia Baird
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace.
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A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the ‘light within’ that Julia Baird calls ‘phosphorescence’…
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‘Utterly captivating and magical.’ JULIA BRADBURY ‘This book is about many things, but it comes down to finding grace in the ordinary and awe in the magic of the universe…
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The extraordinary story of the world’s most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.
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From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED…
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'A powerful book from one of my favorite writers on something we all need more of...and could give more of.' - Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the…
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the ‘light within’…
A powerful insight into how the media treats female politicians - now revised and updated with a new foreword by Annabel Crabb - from one of our foremost journalists and…
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Rosie Batty, Sue Smethurst
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty
Greta J. Bradman
Whether you want to make better decisions, improve your relationships or find more meaning in your work, harnessing your core values is the key to your future success, contentment and…
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Jacinta Parsons
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging.
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Grace is both mysterious and hard to define. It can be found when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared…
In a beautiful, intimate and personal book, Julia Baird investigates happiness; specifically, how we can find, and more importantly hold onto, that quality of internal happiness - ‘the light within’…
Where do you find light in the darkness? ‘A luminously beautiful book, full of grace’ Magda Szubanksi
The honest and revealing story of John Lennon’s childhood by his sister Julia.
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‘A stunning achievement …Neither sanitized nor mythologizing, Victoria: The Queen is a remarkably lucid, endlessly engaging account of Queen Victoria’s life and rule’ Amanda Foreman
Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2016. –Title page verso.
Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth in 1819, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. Born into a world where women…
Examines the part the press has played in the downfall or discrediting of prominent women in politics - including Bronwyn Bishop, Cheryl Kernot, Carmen Lawrence, Pauline Hanson - and what…
This book synthesizes current knowledge and understanding of management and governance in the context of water resilience;
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Pluralism in Ecosystem Governance, Volume 66 in the Advances in Ecological Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this release including chapters on An exploration of the effects…
This collection brings together fourteen contributions by authors from around the globe. Each of the contributions engages with questions about how local and global bioethical issues are made to be…
