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Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories
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: Essays / Short Stories
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 - Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
"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
Bypass: The Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A profound, uplifting and accessible introduction to key philosophical ideas and their relevance to everyday life. Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-loved Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, looking at the works of twenty eminent thinker ...Show more
The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology
A wise and funny exploration of quite possibly the best third of your life by the acclaimed author of Things You Get For Free and Bypass.Bed is the most dangerous place on earth. More people die there than anywhere else. Maybe that's why each passing generation spends less time in bed than the one befor ...Show more
Things You Get For Free: updated edition by Michael McGirr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
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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