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  • Ginger in Her Socks: One Englishman’s Parenting in China

    by Ian Mote ...
    I have lived in China for 13 years, and my daughter was born there. This book is made up of my experiences – not just about becoming a parent for the first time, but then about bringing up a child in China. For instance, I have had to deal with traditional medicine treatments that I could not even pronounce, been embarrassed when my daughter at age two spoke more Chinese than I did, and worked out ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • From Chicken Feet to Crystal Baths

    An Englishman’S Travels Throughout China

    by Ian Mote ...
    I have been to every province in China, and the book is made up of travel stories about the places I have been and the experiences I have had. For instance, I have been hosted in first-class establishments in Shanghai, been drunk with miners in Inner Mongolia, wandered out in the Gobi desert, and nearly been sick on the embalmed body of Chairman Mao. This book is about being a Western expat ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Family Law

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    Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why won't his Chinese ... Read more

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  • My Mother Warned Warned Me About Blokes Like Me

    My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is Boris Mihailovic's frank, fearless and fast account of a life of motorcycles, brotherhood, demons, dirt and danger.Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed, then this book is ... Read more

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  • Hurrah for Gin

    THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC HUMOUR BOOK FOR PERFECTLY IMPERFECT PARENTS

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    FROM THE BESTSELLLING AUTHOR OF THE LOTTIE BROOKS SERIES, KATIE KIRBYThis book is not a how-to-guide. It won't tell you how to get your baby to sleep, how to deal with toddler tantrums, how to be a good parent, a cool parent or even a renegade parent. It is a book about parenting that contains absolutely no useful advice whatsoever.Instead it shares beautifully honest anecdotes and illustrations ... Read more

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  • Okay Days

    'A joyous ode to being in love' - Stylist

    by Jenny Mustard ...
    A smart, sexy and spiky modern love story'A perfect Millennial love story'Irish Times'Reminiscent of Sally Rooney'Stylist'Tender and spell-binding'Annie Lord, author of Notes on Heartbreak'A beautifully observed portrait of self-discovery and uncertain love'Natasha Brown, author of AssemblySam is 28, Swe... ... Read more

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    Stories of motorcycles and other drugs

    Caution: Contains incidents of insane motorcycle antics, drug use and swearing.'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABCHis mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politically incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of passage into ... Read more

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  • Fat

    by Rob Grant ...
    Rob Grant's new novel is a revelation. After INCOMPETENCE we would all have expected a killingly funny satire. And in its satire of our obsession with body image, of how the media makes us what we are FAT is certainly that.But in its depiction of Grenville, a fat man at his wits end with the need to be thin; of Hayleigh, a teenage girl obsessed with her terror of being fat and of Jeremy, the self ... Read more

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  • China: Don't Go There Until...

    by Rob Walters ...
    If you are thinking of going to China to teach or travel then don't – not until you have read this book. The book may entice you to go or it may persuade you to stay. Either way if you are interested in China and wish to advance far beyond the tourist guide view, then read this book.The author lived in one of the most famous cities in China, yet few in the West have heard of it. He also lived near ... Read more

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    Its a social statement; exposing the cultural bondage to traditions over common sense, logic and 21st-century-order. The obvious ineffectiveness of government, the lackadaisical enforcements of rules and laws, the selfishness of the individual superseding social orders. The beyond-time mentality over the salvages of most modern innovations - all in total contrast to the other. The daily lifes ... Read more

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  • The Ragged People: a story of the post-plague years

    by Nick Gifford ...
    Life in the refugee camp is hard for Dan and his brother Rick. They sleep huddled together with a thousand other refugees in an enormous warehouse, and they spend all day queuing for food and water and medicine, watched over by soldiers in anti-contamination masks. And all around them, people are dying: dying from hunger, dying from one of the new plagues, or dying simply because they have lost ... Read more

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