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Author: Natalie Reilly ISBN: 978-1-74237-942-5 RRP: $17.99 I was looking for a little something to read that wouldn’t take too long and I could slip in between books, and then I discovered this little gem hiding in my box of goodies. That almost-pocket-sized little volume looks like just the thing to read while I’m waiting [...]
Author: Jen Merheb, with a Foreword by Veronica Zysk ISBN: 978-1-4027-7299-3 RRP: $19.99 Bringing up a child with autism can be an overwhelming journey, and every child is different which means that there are uncountable ways that children with autism differ from each other. This makes the challenge even greater for parents trying to learn [...]
Sam Moran is best known for his role as the yellow Wiggle, the role that has won him the hearts of millions of children and their parents since 2006. Late in January Sam lost the role quite unexpectedly and has received an outpouring of love and support for the generation of children and parents who [...]
Author: Brianna Karp ISBN: 978-129179691-3 RRP:$29.99 My mind is still reeling a little at all of the information I have taken on board through Brianna Karp’s heartfelt story-telling and the phrase burnt on my brain is ‘a memoir’. If this was a work of fiction I could take it all in my stride, read and [...]
Author: Colin Clark Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to spend a week with Marilyn Monroe? In 1956, Oxford graduate Colin Clark found out. Clark worked as a gofer on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’, the film which united Britain’s leading actor with Hollywood’s most glamorous star. My [...]
Author: Jessica Jones ISBN: 978-0-7336-2743-9 RRP: $32.99 Jessica Jones shares her emotional journey in an unfailingly honest account of her experiences with breast cancer. The Elegant Art of Falling Apart conveys the sense of humour with which Jessica must approach her life so even though there isn’t a lot that’s funny about the period of [...]
Author: Stephanie Dowrick ISBN: 978-1-74237-824-4 RRP: $27.99 Everyday Kindness is the latest book by Stephanie Dowrick and it is a book that I think every person should have by their bedside with a chapter, or a section, mandatory reading before getting out of bed. The chapters are extremely short which makes them super easy to [...]
Author: Amanda Cole ISBN: 978-0-9808313-0-6 RRP: $34.95 Amanda Cole is an inspiring and driven young woman who moved me to tears in her previous book, You Are My Future. That drive and ambition saw her self-publish her debut novel I Hate Cinderella and it was a process which brought her into contact with many other [...]
Author: Ian Crofton ISBN: 978-085-738-0753 RRP: $24.99 Are there gaps in your history knowledge? Did your education focus on a relatively narrow range of historical topics? This is quite a common complaint, and understandable when you consider that there is around 4 million years between us and when the first recognisable humans walked the earth. [...]
Author: David Katz ISBN: 978-158-816-8054 Esquire magazine have collected memories from eleven great writers about the relationship shared between fathers and their sons. This is a collection of touching memories often reminiscent of a time long in the past; long in the past of the man telling the tale anyway. Each of these touching tales tell [...]
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