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Spotless A-Z: the ultimate guide to stain removal
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2014
How to be comfy: hundreds of tips to make your house a home
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2007
Spotless: room-by-room solutions to domestic disasters
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2006
In a handy and easy to use format Spotless provides encylcopediac answers to all kinds of domestic disasters - from…
how to repair scratches to removing stains and other disfigurements. An essential book for the kitchen bookshelf, each chapter addresses the stains, cleaning and household problems that may come about in each room of the house: the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, bedroom, children's room and even outdoors on a deck or patio. Filled with easy, do-it-yourself cleaning solutions, handy hints and examples Spotless is a domestic bible that will be referred to again and again.Speed cleaning: a spotless house in just 15 minutes a day
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2006
Become a lean, mean speedcleaning machine! Room by room, Shannon (The Queen of Clean as her legion of adoring fans…
and media have dubbed her) and Jennifer explain the best and most efficient ways to clean your house. More than that, they let us all into the secrets of making your house appear pristine and welcoming even when visitors drop in unannounced before you've had a chance to get the mops out. Perfect for busy working people, blokes (!) and simply anyone who finds keeping the house up to scratch a real chore.Baby Benjamin's impressions
By Susan Oxenham. 2015
Teen stages: how to guide their journey to adulthood
By Ken Mellor, Elizabeth Mellor. 2004
Shock, horror - teenagers actually want to be controlled and have "involved" parents! What parents need to know about the…
six different stages of development - and why each stage requires different responses.Organic vegetable gardening
By Annette McFarlane. 2002
In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness, more and more people are growing their own vegetables.…
This new, greatly expanded edition of Annette McFarlane's gardening classic offers gardeners an authoritative and comprehensive guide to growing an extensive range of organic vegetables. As well as outlining the basics - how to plan your garden and prepare soil, make compost, develop a planting guide, propagate, and sow and germinate seeds - Annette offers a mass of new and exciting material.A fortunate life
By A. B Facey. 1985
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals a winner against impossible odds, who lived…
with simple honesty, compassion and courage. Bert's childhood ended at the age of eight years of age, when the parentless boy was sent to work on the rough West Australian frontier. As an adult, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss of his farm during the Depression, the death of his son in world War II and that of his beloved wife after sixty devoted years - yet felt that his life was fortunate.Walk a crooked mile: a father's journey in the footsteps of his son
By Greg Jones. 2000
Gold Medallist, world champion and world record holder : Lachlan Jones, OAM, is an exceptional athlete. What makes his success…
even more remarkable is that he has limited vision and cerebral palsy. 'Walk a crooked mile' is the story of Lachlan's rise to the top of international wheelchair racing, told from his father's perspective. It is a journey that begins with the annual Rip to River fun run on Victoria's south coast - when a determined Lachlan walked his first crooked mile in the company of his father. The journey continues through bouts of illness, financial obstacles, and physical and social barriers until its culmination in Gold at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics.The butterfly and the stone: a son, a father, God's love on a prodigal journey
By Dan N Mayhew. 2011
Hope is a butterfly. Fear is a stone. As the father waits for his son to come home. For anyone…
who has been or has loved a prodigal child, here is a voice in the night that says you are not alone. 'The Butterfly and the Stone' is a story of fear and hope on a journey that leads from the safety of home to Iraq, and home again to face a fiercer enemy: post-traumatic stress and addiction. Woven throughout is God's love...found in a most unexpected place...Osteoporosis: the silent epidemic
By Leonard Rose, Melinda Rose. 1994
Giving a clear account of your bones and what can go wrong with them, this book draws on recent Australian…
research and details the latest recommendations for treatment. It also looks at lifestyle changes people can make to decrease their risks, and examines techniques such as bore density scanning which can detect the disease in its early stages, when treatment can slow or even halt its progress.What, no baby?: why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get it back
By Leslie Cannold. 2005
What, No Baby? takes us on a journey into the lives of contemporary women whose plans to have it all…
- marriage, motherhood and work - have been derailed by reluctant men, insatiably demanding jobs and ever-climbing expectations of what it takes to be a "good" mother. Leslie Cannold argues that this is the twenty-first century's 'problem without a name' and that the unprecedented obstacles modern women face in achieving the life most of them want are tragically real. Women want to mother as much as they ever did. What has changed is their willingness to sacrifice everything they've built - everything they are - to do so.The end of equality: work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
By Anne Summers. 2003
Among the most contentious issues Australia faces at the beginning of the 21st century is one that many thought had…
been dealt with in the '70s: the condition of Australian women. Debate still rages over their position in the workplace, their alleged failure to 'breed' sufficiently, their lack of true economic equality, and their inability to penetrate in any real numbers the proverbial glass ceilings in corporate and public life. What happened to the so-called feminist revolution? Why do most women feel exhausted and trapped? Is there real choice in women's lives today?The writing book: a workbook for fiction writers
By Kate Grenville. 1998
How to get there: a memoir
By Maggie MacKellar. 2014
After Maggie Mackellar’s acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to…
Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family’s farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and assorted menagerie to live with a farmer. ’In the book she explores learning to love again after living through grief, and the complexities of doing this in a community with which she is unfamiliar, with two young children. She reflects on love after grief, juggling being a mother and negotiating a burgeoning relationship, the rhythms of country life, displacement and the writing life. This is a book for anyone who has imagined taking a risk, for anyone who has moved to a new place and struggled with feelings of homesickness and displacement. It is a story about making a life in a remarkable setting - the east coast of Tasmania, on a sheep farm in a stone house built by convicts in 1828.The memoir book
By Patti Miller. 2007
We all have a story to tell - whether it is a story of a migrant childhood, a difficult past,…
adopting a child, riding a bike across India, or simply a contemplative year in a garden. With these stories we make sense of ourselves and the world around us. Memoir - writing about an aspect of a life rather than a whole life - expresses and shapes these stories within us so that the writing becomes more than a record, it becomes a creative journey. Drawing on Patti's extensive teaching and writing experience, and using examples and exercises, The Memoir Book provides invaluable insight on how to find your topic, develop narrative voice, find a balance between factual truth and vivid story-telling, explore creative ways of structuring memories, and helps identify the best form for your writing - whether it be literary memoir, narrative non-fiction, sojourn and travel writing, or even the personal essay.Anna's story
By Bronwyn Donaghy. 2006
On 21 October 1995, Anna Wood went to a party and took an ecstasy tablet. Three days later she was…
dead. A life destroyed. A family devastated. She was just fifteen. She was leaving school to start the job of her dreams. She was beautiful, she had a loving family and countless friends. Bronwyn Donaghy interviewed friends, family members and numerous professionals in order to write the story of the circumstances surrounding Anna's death and of her family's decision to try and turn tragedy into a positive force for good.It is a story of our times, a story with powerful resonances for Anna's generation and their parents, for counsellors, doctors and teachers, for anyone who values the sanctity of life.Bloodhound: searching for my father
By Ramona Koval. 2015
"I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that…
might ensue. ‘Hello? I was wondering if you’re the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Mary if I was married and had children and was happy-and if you are, are you my real father?" Ramona Koval’s parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne. As a child, Koval learned little about their lives - only snippets from traumatic tales of destruction and escape. But she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father. One day in the 1990s, long after her mother’s death, she decides she must know the truth. A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers. Before long Koval is interrogating a nursing-home patient, meeting a horse whisperer in tropical Queensland, journeying to rural Poland, learning other languages and dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, all in the hope of finding an answer.Organic fruit growing: your complete guide to producing beautiful fruit all year round
By Annette McFarlane. 2011
In this practical, no-fail guide, the author makes fruit growing easy with advice on: soil preparation, drainage, waterwise design, nutrition,…
coping with climatic variations (including drought tolerance), propagation, purchasing and planting, pruning and training, pollination, pest and diseases and how to control them organically.Successful gardening: in warm climates
By Annette McFarlane. 2008