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  • The Famous Five: A Personal Anecdotage

    by Stephen Isabirye ...
    For the past century, Enid Blyton has been described as the greatest publishing phenomenon of our time, the Muhammad Ali of Childrens Literature while The Famous Five have often been described as The Beatles of Childrens Literature whereas The Secret Seven are deemed to have been the cradle of James Bond. Nonetheless, this is the first book that looks at Enid Blytons works from a comparative ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)

    by Margaret Humphreys ...
    Also published as Oranges and Sunshine.In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Blood-Stained Pavement

    A Miss Marple Short Story

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Series Book 13 - Miss Marple Mysteries
    A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

    Edited by Anita Heiss ...
    Childhood stories of family, country and belongingWhat is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia?This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business

    Sex, Freedom and Misogyny

    by Anna Goldsworthy ...
    Series Book 50 - Quarterly Essay
    On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a nerve. Why?In the fiftieth Quarterly Essay, Anna Goldsworthy examines life for women after the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Fifty Shades of Feminism

    by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes ...
    Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Book of Paul

    The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating

    by Russell Marks ...
    Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating – at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best.Paul lets rip – on John Howard: “The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.”On Peter Costello: “The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg.”On John Hewson: “[His performance] is like being flogged with a warm ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Talk to the Hand

    The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt The Door

    by Lynne Truss ...
    "Talk to the hand, ’cause the face ain’t listening," the saying goes.When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society become so thoughtless? It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says it’s now reached the boiling point. Taking on the boorish behavior that for some has become a point of pride, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots & ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bedtime Stories

    21 Years Behind the Mike at RN's Late Night Live

    by Phillip Adams ...
    Reflections on 21 years behind the microphone at one of Radio National's flagship programs, Late Night Live, the people and the places which made it the cutting edge radio it continues to be today.For 21 years Phillip Adams has been the witty, smooth and informed voice of Late Night Live on ABC Radio National. In the studio he bats questions to world leaders, thinkers, ideologues, crackpots and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • I Call Myself A Feminist

    The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty

    by Victoria Pepe ...
    Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them.We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist), Laura Pankhurst, great-great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and an activist in her own right ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Women of the Revolution: Forty years of feminism

    by Kira Cochrane ...
    When hundreds gathered in 1970 for the UK's first women's liberation conference, a movement that had been gathering strength for years burst into a frenzy of radical action that was to transform the way we think, act and live. In the 40 years since then, the feminist movement has won triumphs and endured trials, but it has never weakened its resolve, nor for a moment been dull. The Guardian has ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Girl Trouble

    Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

    by Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    'A brilliant cultural history.'Irish ExaminerGirls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD