How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? True Stories of Expat Women in Asia In this collection, twenty-six women reveal the truth about expatriate life in modern East Asia through original works of memoir and creative non-fiction. Their experiences are…
Nancy Wake Synopsis A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011 In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo’s most wanted…
The Blind Masseuse is a collection of travel essays named in Publishers Weekly Top 10 Travel Books. The Blind Masseuse Synopsis: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what…
What Westerners Have for Breakfast Synopsis: In the mid-eighties John McBeath and his partner Sue left Australia for India with the dream to open a European-style pensione in an old Portuguese villa in Goa. After several visits to India they had…
David Sedaris’ Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is the perfect audiobook to get you through your daily commute. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls Synopsis: From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a…
Simon Winder’s Danubia was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Danubia, A Personal History of Habsburg Europe Synopsis: For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores,…
Patrick Holland’s Riding the Trains in Japan is for those who have left their rose-coloured glasses behind in a nondescript hotel room in a foreign country, but not their inquiring mind and adventurous spirit. Riding the Trains in Japan Synopsis Travels…
The Art of Travel Synopsis Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save…
The Gunners of Shenyang Synopsis In Yu Jihui’s memoir of his life as a university student in China as the nation starved during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, carrots are decadent luxuries and flatulence is the people’s true common language. “Soapy,”…
After the international success of Flavours of Melbourne, there was an obvious need to publish a sequel to showcase Melbourne’s thriving urban food scene. Flavours of Urban Melbourne Synopsis: Flavours of Urban Melbourne showcases the profound ebbs and flows of…
Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller Synopsis Journalist Dominic Dunne’s travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning…
PRODUCE TO PLATTER , the food and wine lovers’ guide Yarra Valley & The Dandenongs – Synopsis Produce to Platter, the food and wine lovers’ guide to the Yarra Valley and The Dandenongs is the co-production of a mother and daughter…
The Golden Door Synopsis Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be ‘not born’. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy…
Looking for a family activity that does not involve the TV and is fun and at the same time educational? The Puzzle Trilogy: 303 Puzzle Quizzes from the Grabarchuk family may be just the thing for you. The puzzles are colourful…
Flavours of Melbourne Synopsis Flavours of Melbourne explores Melbourne’s nooks and crannies, upstairs and downstairs and through the complex laneway system. Beautiful photography, history, recipe, street art, restaurants and bars – all come together in this exciting new book about Melbourne’s…
Glynis Ridley’s novel The Discovery of Jeanne Baret is A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe is compelling historian speculation based on fact. Read my full review. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret Synopsis: The year was…
