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Together Apart: Life In Lockdown by BELINDA JACKSON & JUDE VAN DAALEN

$79.95 AUD

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Category: Biography

Portraits from a pandemic When COVID-19 hit Melbourne harder than a runaway tram, our lives changed - literally overnight.?Together Apart is a historical account of Melbourne's experiences during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, told through 60 stories of lives in lockdown. The book captures the poignanc y of the lollipop lady waiting for the children who never come and the grieving families divided by borders. There's the barista serving up caffeine and counselling, the football coach relegated to the bench and the joy rediscovered in rainbows and bears as our world slowed.? What started as a conversation over the back fence to break the solitude of lockdown has grown into a friendship and a partnership between portrait photographer Jude van Daalen and her next-door neighbour, journalist Belinda Jackson. Photographed, written and printed in Melbourne, Together Apart is Jude and Belinda's black-and-white coffee table book featuring 60 portraits of people in their neighbourhood, a time capsule reminding us of our emotional fragility and our resilience, our hope and humour, and our innate and unstoppable human need for togetherness.   ...Show more

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Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh

$27.95 AUD

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Category: Biography

An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Unti l one day – Sam Hunt plays a role – Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be WILD! Selina takes us through special moments in her extraordinary life. She becomes one of the first Pasifika women to hold a PhD. She reads for the Queen of England and Samoan royalty. She meets Barack Obama. And then she is named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. She picks up her special tokotoko, and notices something. It has wild hair coming out the end. It looks like a mop. A kid on the Waiheke ferry teases her about it. So she tells him a story . . . This is an inspirational graphic memoir, full of wry humour, that will appeal to young readers and adults alike. Illustrated with wit and verve by the author – NZ’s bestselling Poet Laureate – Mophead tells the true story of a New Zealand woman realising how her difference can make a difference. ...Show more

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Large 9781877257537

The Land of Doing without: Davey Gunn of the Hollyford

$31.95 AUD

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Category: Biography

"He was made of horseshoe nails and whipcord."Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. When he moved there in 1926 he left behind his wife and children - and civilisation - for a tough and solitary life he grew to love. Although quiet and modest by nature, Davey became known throughout New Zealand as a back-country hero for his 20-hour journey on foot to raise the alarm after a fatal plane crash at Big Bay in 1936. His efforts saw the four survivors rescued, and the legend of Davey Gunn began. First published July 2007. ...Show more

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