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The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents ...Show more
The Bee and the Orange Tree (HB) by Melissa Ashley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
The Birdman's Wife by Melissa Ashley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before. But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman's Wife at last gives voice to a passionate and adventurous spirit who was so much more than the woman behind the ma ...Show more
The Birdman's Wife by Melissa Ashley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by a letter found tucked inside her famous husband's papers, The Birdman's Wife imagines the fascinating inner life of Elizabeth Gould, who was so much more than just the woman behind the man. Elizabeth was a woman ahead of her time, juggling the demands of her artistic life with her roles as w ...Show more
The Birdman's Wife by Melissa Ashley
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before. But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman's Wife at last gives voice to a passionate and adventurous spirit who was so much more than the woman behind the ma ...Show more
The Boys from St Francis - Stories of the Remarkable Aboriginal Activists, Artists and Athletes Who Grew up in One Seaside Home by Ashley Mallett
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
This remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later life. In 1945, Anglican priest Father Percy Smith brought six boys from their Northern Territory home to an Adelaide beach suburb. There, they became the f ...Show more
The Flaw in the Crystal - And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair by May Sinclair; Mike Ashley (Editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
At that moment, in a flash that came like a shifting of her eyes, the world she looked at suffered a change... It was the same world, flat field for flat field and hill for hill; but radiant, vibrant, and, as it were, infinitely transparent.Tales of eternal damnation, love, sexuality, death and supernat ...Show more
The House That Trane Built : The story of Impulse Records by Ashley Kahn
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
From 1961 to '76, Impulse Records defined the shape of jazz - the label invited listeners in to an exciting and wide-ranging world of challenging, improvised music. It fully lived up to its motto of being 'The New Wave of Jazz'. The list of leaders Impulse recorded both mirrored and helped shape the div ...Show more
The Life Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner's Guide with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley by Maurice Ashley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Life Changing Magic Ser.
Chess is a bit like doing magic. The pieces come alive and you're the magician. You get to move them where you like, within the rules of the game. Cool, huh? So let me take you back to the very beginning and show you how it's done... Discover why the world's first Black Grandmaster Maurice Ashley thinks ...Show more
The Measure of Sorrow: Stories by J. Ashley-Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estrange ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
The Outcast - And Other Dark Tales by e F Benson by Mike Ashley (Editor); Edward Frederic Benson
$27.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous setting of a terraced back garden . . . E F Benson's "spook stories" pushed the boundaries of the ghost st ...Show more