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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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The extraordinary story of the world’s most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.
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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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"Luminous. . . . A work to both devour and savour, Baird has, once again, written a book the world needs now.'"-Guardian
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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.
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
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…
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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…
The honest and revealing story of John Lennon’s childhood by his sister Julia.
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Where do you find light in the darkness? ‘A luminously beautiful book, full of grace’ Magda Szubanksi
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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’…
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 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
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.
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…
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…