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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Lewis Norman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel
a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy, rang ...Show more
A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in Eastern India: Bihar and Orissa by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher-caste ...Show more
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis' honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a m ...Show more
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
$22.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Faber paperbacks
A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian apologist on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in ...Show more
A Grief Observed - Readers' Edition by C. S. Lewis; Jenna Bailey; Maureen Freely; Hilary Mantel; Jessica Martin; Kate Saunders; Francis Spufford; Rowan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Reading Level: very good
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, ...Show more
A.L.I.E.E.E.N #1 by Lewis Trondheim
$24.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Explores human nature, cruelty and kindness. This work includes interwoven stories and vignettes, and reveals a darker, and more complex side as alien characters act out very human problems, from peer pressure to intolerance to the challenges of friendship.
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we ...Show more
A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier by Darrell Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains, and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but it was also a paradise for the Aboriginal people who had live ...Show more
A Wild History - Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier by Darrell Lewis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory's Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for thousand ...Show more
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.Even in so-called ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics