As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories—and a terrifying brush with her own mortality—sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who’ve faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humor. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she’s learned about coping with life’s unexpected blows. Warm, candid, and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don’t know we have.

Any Ordinary Day: What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life?

Politics & Social Sciences

Sales, Leigh

Social Sciences

Hamish Hamilton Australia

Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school. After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in foster homes. A scholarship to a prestigious boarding school lifted him out of foster care and awakened a love of learning and reading for him, but this was soon overwhelmed by a crushing depression and drug addiction. Through it all, he kept thinking - sometimes hoping, sometimes fearing - that he was destined for something bigger. Would he find salvation in the halls of a university, or a poetically grimy crack den, or through love? Or would the golden glow that had been in him since childhood ultimately fade, leaving only darkness and ruin? The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a memoir of trauma and survival that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild it. It is a powerful, lyrical and darkly funny debut from one of Australia's brightest young comedians.

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

Biographies & Memoirs

WHITE, COREY

Memoirs

Before I Forget

BLAINEY, GEOFFREY

Join Guillaume for a decadent winter luncheon hosted by Cate Blanchett in an iconic country woolshed or a stylish seafood lunch at the beachside hideaway of Kellie Hush, editor-in-chief of Harper's BAZAAR. Guillaume also shares more of his family's favorite recipes—relaxed, delicious meals designed to satisfy a household of hungry children (and a busy French chef)—before inviting you behind the scenes of his brand new restaurant. This is full-flavored, big-hearted food, perfect for sharing with those you love. Stunning photography by Anson Smart and Earl Carter ensures Food for Family is a true feast for the eyes as well as the tastebuds. With a foreword by model Sarah Murdoch.

Guillaume: Food for Family

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Brahimi, Guillaume

Entertaining & Holidays

The Bush

History

Watson, Don.

Australia & Oceania

A haunting, compelling first novel by the author of the award-winning Madness- A Memoir. Forever entwined, Sea and Serene live isolated in the Australian alpine wilderness, together with Wren - the young man who helps care for them. Each have found peace in this wild, fierce landscape, and they live in harmony, largely self-sufficient. One day Wren discovers a woman on the road nearby, badly injured and unconscious. He brings her back to the cottage, and he and the twins nurse her back to health. But the arrival of this outsider shatters the dynamic within, with unforeseen consequences. Lyrical and poetic, Fusion is a unique and haunting modern-gothic tale that has at its heart questions of selfhood, dependency, difference and love. It is the compelling first novel by the award-winning author of Madness- A Memoir.

Fusion

Literature & Fiction

Richards, Kate

Genre Fiction

Stroke of Genius

Australia's favourite cricket writer on how one player - and his photograph - changed a sport and a nation. Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records. In life, Trumper was Australia's first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a symbol of what Australia could be. Crowds flocked to his club matches, English supporters cheered him on in Tests, and at his early funeral in 1915 - even amidst the grief of war - mourners choked the streets of Sydney. Trumper lives on, not just as the name of a stand at the SCG, or a park near his former home ground. He lives in an image that captures him mid-stroke- a daring player's graceful advance into the unknown, alive with intent and controlled abandon. Reproduced countless times in cricket books and pavilions around the world, it conjures an era, an attitude - cricket's first imaginings of itself - and encapsulates the timeless beauty of sport like none other. If Trumper is a legend, George Beldam's 'Jumping Out' has become an icon. But that image has almost paradoxically obscured the story of its subject. Man and photograph have entranced Gideon Haigh since childhood, and in Stroke of Genius he explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game, and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia. In this inventive, fresh and compelling work of history, Haigh reveals how Trumper, and Beldam's incarnation of his brilliance, are at the intersection of sport and art, history and timelessness, reality and myth. 'Haigh, cricket-lover and polymath, couldn't write a dull book if he tried ... the book equally qualifies as art and social history.' The Saturday Paper 'Gripping ... Haigh draws on an encyclopaedic knowledge of cricketing fact and folklore ... and evokes an era retrospectively made golden.' The Times 'Bless all of Haigh, Beldham, Trumper and Penguin Books for combining so well here ... What Haigh has done so well in Stroke of Genius is not only intellectually restore this ubiquitous but little-understood photograph, but doff a skull cap in the direction of the man who at least equalled Trumper for brilliance in creating it. Here's to biting of more than you can chew.' The Guardian 'There are various claimants to the title of 'world's best cricket writer', yet no dispute about who today, is the best writer on cricket. This is the Australian, Gideon Haigh.' The Telegraph, Calcutta 'In Stroke of Genius, Gideon Haigh has given Jumping Out and the men who created it the richly perceptive tribute they have always deserved.' The Age 'Stroke of Genius offers such numerous fresh perspectives about cricket that it is a stroke of genius itself.' Australian Book Review Stroke of Genius was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2017.

Haigh, Gideon

A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson s award winning The Bush These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent Each of these varied contributors settlers explorers anthropologists naturalists stockmen surveyors itinerants artists and writers represents a particular place and time Men in awe of the landscape or cursing it aspiring to subdue and exploit it or finding themselves defeated by it Women reflecting on the land s harshness and beauty on the strangeness of their lives their pleasures and miseries the character and behaviour of the men Europeans writing about indigenous Australians sometimes with intelligent sympathy and curiosity but often with contempt and often describing acts of startling brutality This collection comprises diary extracts memoirs journals letters histories poems and fiction and follows the same loose themes of The Bush The science of the landscape and climate and the way we have perceived them Our deep and sentimental connection to the land and our equally deep ignorance and abuse of it The heroic myths and legends The enchantments The bush as a formative and defining element in Australian culture self image and character The flora and fauna the waterways the colours The heroic self defining stories the bizarre and terrible and the ones lost in the deep silences There are accounts of journeys of work and recreation of religious observance of creation and destruction Stories of uncanny events peculiar and fantastic characters deep ironies and of land unlimited And musings on what might be the future of the bush as a unique environment a food bowl a mine a wellspring of national identity From Dampier and Tasman to Tim Flannery and assorted contemporary farmers environmentalists and grey nomads these pieces represent a vast array of experiences perspectives and knowledge A Single Tree is an essen

A Single Tree

World Literature

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