A beautifully-photographed personal account of a couple renovating a ruined 18th-century chateau in regional France
Ageing - especially for women - isn't a one-size-fits-all process, but this book will inspire you to age with meaning and purpose.
Change your energy and enhance your life through the power of crystals. This beautiful, modern crystal compilation features over 100 crystals to raise your vibrations in bestseller's Goldirocks signature fresh and accessible approach to crystal healing. Explore a directory of crystals and minerals, and their individual properties and learn new ways to connect with their glimmering energies to improve your life. Learn how to cleanse your mind, body and spirit, heal your home, and harness the power of the rocks. This practical guide will equip you with everything you need to reconnect with your spiritual self.Crystal Healing is the perfect companion for Yulia Van Doren's previous bestselling titles Crystals and Crystallize.
Bring your dreams to life with The Little Book of Manifesting. With motivational quotations, fun tasks and thoughtful exercises, The Little Book of Manifesting will show you how to manifest the life you’ve always dreamed of. The Little Book of series has sold 1 million copies worldwide, with titles like The Little Book of Mindfulness, The Little Book of Gratitude and The Little Book of Love. "Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us." – Novalis
Discover how changing the way you cook and eat can make a difference to the world around us with Sustain: Thirty Dishes That Could Save The Planet. Featuring 80 recipes across 30 meals, this inspiring, beautifully photographed cookbook shows how mastering simple "skill builders" such as fermenting, preserving, brining and pickling can lead to a more sustainable kitchen. Cooking simple dishes such as glazed mushroom skewers, stuffed potato cakes, red pepper pasta and venison pie will not only taste delicious but have a long-lasting impact for future generations. Learn about alternative ingredients such as tigernuts - nut-, gluten- and dairy-free tubers high in protein and fiber - which can be transformed into a showstopping, four ingredient cake with seasonal fruit. Written by chef and sustainability champion Jo Barrett, from the team who created the ground-breaking eco-house FutureFoodSystem, Sustain provides innovative, achievable solutions to empower readers to be creative with their cooking, connect with their food system, and help save the planet.
"The Motherhood Space" will carry you through the beautiful chaos of modern motherhood, offering advice, imparting wisdom, and sharing intimate stories to help you feel seen during the intense highs and lows in this season of your life. In this book, doula and mother of three Gabrielle Nancarrow shares her own motherhood journey alongside interviews and personal reflections from mothers around the world, who graciously share deeply honest and tender stories about the times that made them laugh, cry and fall to their knees. Whether you are experiencing identity and relationship shifts, isolation, sleep deprivation, feeding challenges or planning your return to work, the stories within this book will walk with you through each milestone and help you see that you are not alone.
An insight into the life of Australian singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.
Looking for the ultimate guide to sandwiches? Look no further! From buns, wraps and kebabs to hotdogs, burgers and bao, Max’s World of Sandwiches celebrates sandwiches in all their forms.Max’s World of Sandwiches is broken into two sections: sandwiches and components. The sandwich recipes marry the elements in the components section, putting every tip and trick available into world-class sandwiches. The components section will include the key tenets of any sandwich – think bread, sauces, fillings, condiments and adornments of all kinds. Sandwich recipes range from incredibly easy, such as A Prawn Cocktail Sandwich and A Hot Cross Bun Sandwich with Salted Caramel Ice Cream, to more time-consuming, such as A Porchetta Sandwich and A Tuna Katsu Sando.Max’s World of Sandwiches enables home cooks to learn all the tips and tricks of sandwiches, and ultimately to create the sandwiches of their dreams.
Celebrate one of life’s simplest pleasures in Pasta et Al, a joyous cookbook featuring sixty re-created classic Italian recipes for handmade pasta. Alec Morris was taught how to cook fresh pasta by his Nonna as a child, and now carries on the tradition every Sunday with his young sons, Aldo and Elio. The weekly family ritual became a successful blog, which grew into an international community drawn together by an irresistible blend of recipes served with a pinch of humor, plenty of heart, and some delightfully meddling little hands. Join Al, Al and El and discover how to make over thirty different pasta doughs and five different pasta shapes – long, short, big and flat, small and squishy, and filled – with step-by-step tutorials and a range of delicious recipes from fazzoletti al forno to green lasagna, agnolotti del plin and nduja tortelli. This vividly photographed, brilliantly written guide is a snapshot of love and loss, old traditions and new beginnings, and treasured Italian cooking. Pasta et Al will inspire new and seasoned pasta-makers alike to create memorable traditions of their own. - A celebration of family and nostalgia around traditional pasta making. - Over 60 recipes included for pastas as well as sauces and sides. - Connected with Al's popular blog and instagram of the same name. - Beautifully designed package.
This book sets out a new deal for young Australians to rebuild hope, opportunity and jobs.
The late Les Murray described Jamie GrantâEUR(TM)s work as âEURpoems of scrupulous craftsmanship and unlinking intelligence, poems which pay acute attention to the contours of experience.âEUR? This new collection, which is divided into five discrete sections, focuses that attention on the twenty-first century world, its office buildings and hospitals, motorways and wind farms, while also looking back to characters and events from earlier times. There are also observations of AustraliaâEUR(TM)s natural environment, its forests, farms, birds and animals. The last of the five sections is a series of versified thumbnail sketches of historical figures whose achievements helped to shape the present age. And there is even an elegy for Les Murray among the other verses.
In Blossom, botanical illustrator and lifelong flower lover Adriana Picker takes you through a year of flowers and the ways to live with and learn from them, with beautiful artwork as well as recipes and activities to encourage a slower life through the seasons. Telling the stories of flowers from around the world, this enchanting collection also provides mindful and practical ideas for reconnecting with nature and the blooms around us. From making natural oils and perfumes, to recipes for floral vinegars and pickles, tips for floral arrangements, and lessons in floral anatomy and drawing, this book is an invitation to find beauty in the everyday. Complete with Adriana’s stunning illustrations, Blossom is a perfect gift for all nature lovers, and a flower bible like no other.
Compact and easy-to-navigate, the Halliday Pocket Wine Companion 2023 distils the key elements of the bestselling annual guide, curating the best-of-the-best both by value and rating across Australia's key wine regions. For almost 40 years, James Halliday has been the most trusted name in Australian wine, and his celebrated annual is the ultimate guide to what to drink now. The Halliday Pocket Wine Companion gives wine lovers access to his expert knowledge in a small package that is convenient to read, use and carry. You'll never drink a bad wine again.
Be Here Now will show you how to discover your 'now', building resilience and nurturing your own inner sanctuary by treasuring the world, just as it is now, in all its simplicity and authenticity. Beautifully written and illustrated by acclaimed artist Meredith Gaston with photographs by Roberto Massimo, Be Here Now shows you how easy it is to reconnect with the moment, pushing aside life's challenges to rediscover the simple things in life. This inspiring book will assist you to relax and enjoy the moment, a skill that should never be forgotten.
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV's news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to unexpected places.Comedy has been Shaun's escape, his guiding light, his refuge, his passport, his lifebuoy, his drug, his mask, his means, his end, his lingua franca, his Self. But it's not everything.From his early years as a gangly, bespectacled nerd in suburban Adelaide to the giddy heights of national TV stardom, Shaun regales us with his experiences and his continuous reinvention through humour with well,humour. He writes with candour about his successes and failures, loves and losses, along with tales of wine, women, song, and eccentric dancing. Behind the persona of one of Australia's best-loved comedians lurks, as you will discover, an idiot.Despite Shaun's best efforts, Tripping Over Myself is sprinkled with thoughtful insights and observations and shows us how to persist in the face of adversity or even good fortune. You will laugh, you will dog-ear pages, you will wonder, you will Google ';Jerry Lewis', you may book a trip to India, and you will come away from this book reflecting on your own life in new and remarkable ways.
In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Womens March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking truth to power and changing the way we think of women in the workplace. This is the third book in The Crikey Readseriesfrom Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. For ten years Australian women have been sold a dazzling promise: through sheer 'will' and individual self-empowerment they could overcome decades of gender inequality in the workplace. The hard, structural work didn't need to be done; all the solutions could be individual. Yet leaning in, power-posing and speaking up (and being spoken over) at the boardroom table have made very little difference for the great majority of women, still underpaid and overworked compared to their male colleagues. The COVID-19 pandemic has shockingly revealed the fragile foundations of women's working lives. Its also given us a rare opportunity for a reimagining. But Australian women are still being told to ';Lean In' at precisely the moment when so many are ';leaning out'. With the majority of all jobs lost in the pandemic being held by women, and successive governments unable or unwilling to address the ';gender issue', we are at crisis point. Leaning Out is a manifesto for what we can and should do with this moment. From Crikey and Hardie Grant Books, The Crikey Read is a series that brings an unflinching and truly independent eye to the issues of the day in Australia and the world.
InThrough Her EyesAustralian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels in Central Africa, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the chaos faced by ordinary people caught up in disasters and political upheaval. While a woman strapping on a reporters' flak jacket is now a common sight, there was a time when they were locked out of the big stories because of their gender. Unlike their male counterparts, they needed single-minded determination to score a plum assignment or win a posting to a foreign bureau.Through Her Eyestells of the exhilaration that comes with a big story but also the dangers, the risks, the struggle and the big issues women still face, from vicious media trolling to threats of sexual violence.Through Her Eyesincludes well-known women correspondents for major media organisations inside and outside Australia including the ABC, BBC, SBS, CNN,The Associated Press of America, UPI, Reuters,The Timesof London, Al Jazeera, China Global Television Network,The Australian,The Sydney Morning Herald,The Age, and theAustralian Financial Review.
In You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent, Jasper Peach provides a practical and emotional guide for LGBTIGA+ families around the arrival of a new baby. Becoming a parent is already a challenging time, even more so if you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream parenting resources, culture or even language. But alphabet soup families are also in the unique position of being able to intentionally build their own family structure and create an environment of huge love and belonging for their children. This little book holds the reader’s hand through the journeys of both birth and non-birth parents, with advice on everything from dealing with other’s definitions of your family, to finding the right medical care and communities, and of course making sure that you take a lot of naps before the baby is born. A beautifully illustrated hardback full of warmth and personality, You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent is unlike any other book on the market in its inclusive and celebratory approach to queer parenting, and there is something for everyone to learn from the values and experiences of rainbow families. It is the perfect book for new or expecting parents of all descriptions.
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Australians and the dangers to us of the new authoritarianism all this and more has been shaped, for better or worse, by public researchers and writers like Hamilton. His work, and that of the Australia Institute he founded, made him many friends as well as powerful enemies. He's been denounced in federal parliament, black-handed by the Chinese Communist Party and sued by an angry corporation. He's had to call in the police after death threats and take a crash course in counter-surveillance techniques. But he has also influenced the quality of the air Australians breathe, the cost of our education and how we see Australia's place in the world. In Provocateur, we see the passions, the doubts, the strategising, the fears, the victories, the mistakes and the questioning. Here is a blueprint for changing public debate in our increasingly uncertain times proof that ideas are powerful and that a different way into the future is possible.
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the sultan of swing, one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive left-handed striking, his leadership and his inspiration. For another twenty years he kept his own counsel about those days, full of drama, controversy and even mystery, in a country, Pakistan, that to outsiders is a constant enigma. Until now. Sultan tells the story of cricket's greatest left-arm bowler, and one of its greatest survivors, who was chosen from the streets of Lahore and groomed by Imran Khan to become champion of the world man of the match in the final of the 1992 World Cup. Along the way were unforgettable rivalries with the greatest of his time, from Viv Richards and Ian Botham to Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne. Along the way, too, a backdrop of conspiracy and intrigue over ball tampering and match fixing about which Wasim finally sets the story straight. But there's more: Sultan goes frankly into the crumbling and rebuilding of Wasim's private life, marred by the tragedy of his first wife's death and the torment of addiction. The result is an unprecedented insight into the life of a cricketer who revolutionised the game with his speed and swing, and a patriot buoyed and burdened by the expectation of one of the game's most fanatical publics.
Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author ofParis or Die, returns to Paris withMy Sweet Guillotine.In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighbourhood. But the accident haunts her, forcing her to confront herself and the experience in ways she could never have predicted.A tale of survival and the untold joys of life's curveballs,My SweetGuillotinecaptures love and trauma with profound insight. Confronting, funny, strange and real, this is a book about life, death and reinvention, rendered in exquisite prose.
Welcome, little one, to our little world. We've been waiting a whole lifetime to meet you. Beautifully and boldly illustrated, Welcome, Little One is all about introducing a new baby to their little world. There's the blanket to keep them warm, the family dog who will teach them friendship and the bedroom window as a gateway to wonder and adventure. Inspired by Sophie Beer's own experience of becoming a parent, Welcome, Little One delightfully weaves all the heartfelt dreams a parent hopes for their child into a sweet book for both to treasure.
The Happiness Year encourages you to explore different ways of discovering happiness through each season and shows you how to nurture this in your everyday life. Seasons tend to be associated with certain behaviors: spring with hope, summer with sociable relaxation, autumn with harvesting, winter with hibernating. The Happiness Year features a host of tips and exercises to encourage you to break away from certain patterns, including mindful breathing and meditation exercises to help you recharge and reflect, as well as simple projects and seasonal affirmations.This uplifting book is for anyone seeking joy and wanting to explore the true meaning of happiness.
Build your self-confidence with this 8 Step Confidence Crash Course, and feel good about who you are and the life you live
When you think of Australian wine, you think of James Halliday. For almost 40 years, the legendary winemaker and critic has been the most trusted name in the industry, and his celebrated Halliday Wine Companion is the final word in what to drink now. This bestselling annual sets the benchmark for winemakers, collectors and wine lovers alike, and the 2023 edition has been revised and updated with over 760 pages, featuring all new scores, notes, wineries and the lastest information on ';exceptional', ';outstanding' and ';highly recommended' wines. Inside, a team of Halliday expert share their extensive knowledge of wine with over 5000 tasting notes offering advice on great value wines, as well as key wine regions, wineries and winemakers, vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details. The Halliday Wine Companion2023 isquite simplythe essential guide for drinkers of Australian wine, or a perfect gift for the wine lover in your life.
Audrey Hepburn: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Iconis a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Audrey Hepburn, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess.From Sabrina to Breakfast at Tiffanys, Audrey Hepburn is renowned for her unforgettable film roles and fashion looks, but less well known is her fascinating life, including her childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland and her tireless dedication to helping those less fortunate than herself. In this book,Megans beautiful illustrations follow Hepburn throughthree distinct chapters: her early life in World War II Europe, dreaming of becoming a ballerina; her ingenue years as the rising star of Hollywood and her incredible fashion partnership with Hubert de Givenchy; and her private life beyond the silver screen, building a legacy through her humanitarian work.Elegantly enclosed by a hardback cover and ribbon,Audrey Hepburn: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a beautiful celebration of a woman whose life was as remarkable as the clothes she wore and the movies she starred in, with every surprising detail and iconic outfit brought to life on the page by the expert hand of Megan Hess.
The Astrology of You is a guide to understanding your birth chart, helping you to decode the messages that were in the stars from the moment of your birth. Itâ¿s a self-help book, rooted in astrology, that demystifies the birth chart and helps you understand yourself on a whole new level. Written by astrologer and meditation teacher Emma Vidgen, The Astrology of You takes a unique approach to helping you achieve success and happiness. You will discover your optimum setting for satisfying relationships, emotional security and creative fulfilment, and learn where to look for guidance when something goes wrong. The birth chart is a personalised instruction manual for life, and The Astrology of You will teach you how to make sense of yours.
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