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A Long Way from Silver Creek : A Family Memoir by Margaret Gee
Category: Biography Memoir
Australian family memoir. Tells the story of three generations living on the land in north-eastern Victoria. Spans the Great Depression and WWII. Recounts Allan Gee's survival of the 1942 sinking of the HMAS Perth and subsequent capture by the Japanese, and slave labouring on the Burma-Thailand railway. ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth by Henry Gee
Category: Languages and Reference
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times' 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changin ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
Category: Science
<b>‘A dazzling, beguiling story . . . told at an exhilarating pace’ <i>Literary Review</i></b> <b> 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading this book? - Everybody!' Jared Diamond, author of <i>G ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
Category: Science
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could en ...Show more
Bay of Fires by Poppy Gee
Category: Fiction
Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon - and secrets are hard to keep; the intimacy of other people's lives is their nourishment. The fact that Sarah Avery has returned, having left ...Show more
Bay of Fires by Poppy Gee
Category: Fiction
Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon - and secrets are hard to keep; the intimacy of other people's lives is their nourishment. The fact that Sarah Avery has returned, having left ...Show more
Bay of Fires by Poppy Gee
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires?is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon - and secrets are hard to keep; the intimacy of other people's lives is their nourishment. The fact that Sarah Avery has returned, having left ...Show more
Bean There, Drunk That: the Definitive Guide to Coffee and the World of the Barista by David Gee
Category: Cook Books
The definitive guide to coffee and the world of the barista.