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To Love, Honour and Betray
- Kathy Lette
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When Lucy's husband of eighteen years runs out on her, she'll do anything to win him back...
Jasper has left Lucy for her best friend, the chic and thin interior decorator Renee. To make matters worse, her teenage daughter Tally, blames her Mum. "Dad left because you've let yourself go, you're overweight and you nagged him. No wonder he buggered off."
Although a signed-up member of Underachievers Anonymous, in Lucy's quest to win back her husband she learns to be a surf life saver, loses weight and gets a job. She also falls in lust, finding herself torn between an older and a much younger man... But it's not until Lucy makes the Freudian discovery that her toy boy is also dating her daughter - and that he's been paid to do so by her conniving ex as ammunition for a custody battle, that she finally learns to stand on her own two stilettos.
- Video: Author Kathy Lette talks about her new book To Love, Honour and Betray
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Harves: Strength Through Loyalty
- Robert Harvey
- Great Price: $21.99
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Robert Harvey is one of the AFL's legends. Since being recruited by the St Kilda Football Club at the age of 16, Harves has played a record-breaking 21 seasons, and is regarded as one of the AFL's best midfielders. He captained St Kilda for two years, won the club's best and fairest award four times and was awarded back-to-back Brownlow medals in 1997 and 1998.
As his final season comes to a close, Harves shares his lifetime of experiences with one of the AFL's most-loved clubs.
Warm, down-to-earth and genuine, Harves is Robert Harvey's no-nonsense autobiography, a must for footy fans of all ages.
- PDF: Read an excerpt from Harves: Strength Through Loyalty
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 The White Tiger
- Aravind Adiga
- Our Price: $36.50
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Man Booker Prize Winner 2008
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer... Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape.
His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son. Arriving in Delhi with his new master, Balram's re-education begins, as he learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. As the other servants flick through the pages of Murder Weekly, Balram begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top?
The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.
- PDF: Read an excerpt from The White Tiger
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 Book: As You Do- Richard Hammond
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This sequel to the bestselling Back from the Edge sees Hammond moving on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him. Instead, Hammond focuses widely over his life to explain such important issues as why he never quite made it as a rock star; the perils of working on Top Gear and his passion for cars. This is the wry, honest and often hilarious chronicle of a very brave and clever TV presenter. Balancing home and family with a crazy, peripatetic working life (or not, sometimes), the hamster is well and truly back on the wheel.
- Video: Richard Hammond talks about As You Do
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Arabesques
- Robert Dessaix
- Our Price: $54.99
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One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer André Gide spent his childhood.
On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, Robert takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize-winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion.
Featuring meditations and conversations with fellow travellers on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism, Arabesques is Robert Dessaix and travel memoir at their absolute finest.
- PDF: Read an excerpt from Arabesques
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