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All The Green Year by Don Charlwood; Michael McGirr (Introduction by)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It was the end of an era; a year of 'outlandish happenings'; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula. His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble, and his be ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life - Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life: forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry (Les Murray) and many of the world's great novels, from George Eliot's Midd ...Show more
Bypass: The Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"All the dirt on the Hume Highway" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the great roads of the world, it is longer than it is wide. Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the H ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more
Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From bestselling author Michael McGirr comes Snooze, a revised edition of the entertaining and enlightening The Lost Art of Sleep (2009). Michael always had trouble sleeping, but the arrival of twins made him realise he''d never known true exhaustion. While he celebrated these small children who brough ...Show more
Things You Get For Free: updated edition by Michael McGirr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. As a priest, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to having. He uses his six-week vacation to take her on ...Show more
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