Click for more info
For 35 years, photographer Andrew Chapman has roamed Australia in search of woolsheds. Some date back to the early 19th century; some are still in use; many are tumbling away into time. His images linger like oil and lanolin stains on timer floors. There are sheep, and dogs, also the people who work in, or own these sheds. They have told Chapman their stories. This is rich social history as welcome as a drink at the end of a day's shearing.
Woolsheds
$39.95
Woolsheds
$39.95
Click for more info
In 'The Office: A Hardworking History', Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, the email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant. Amid the formality, restraint and order of office life, too, he discovers a world teeming with dramas great and small, of boredom, betrayal, distraction, discrimination, leisure and lust, meeting along the way such archetypes as the Whitehall mandarin and the Wall Street banker. Far from simply being a place we visit to earn a living, the office emerges as a way of seeing the entire world.
The Office
$45.00
The Office
$45.00
Click for more info
A bone-freezingly brilliant and gripping novel introducing an astounding, prizeworthy new voice in YA fiction. Set in the haunting and barren landscape of a new ice age, 'After the Snow' is the story of fifteen-year-old Willo, a "straggler" kid who loses his family in the opening pages. Completely alone, he is immediately flung into an icy journey of survival, adventure, friendship and self-discovery - with only the dog spirit inside his head to guide him. Meanwhile, across Britain, outlawed followers of survivalist John Blovyn are planning an escape to the fabled Islands talked of in a revolutionary book...
After The Snow
$19.99
After The Snow
$19.99
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When I tell people that my father is kind of a total lunatic, they laugh and nod knowingly. They assure me that theirs is too, and that he is just a "typical father". And they are probably right, if the typical father runs a full-time taxidermy business out of the house, and shows up at the local bar with a miniature donkey and a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator, and thinks other people are weird for making such a big deal out of it. If the typical father says things like "Happy birthday! Here's a bathtub of raccoons!" or "We'll have to take your car. Mine has too much blood in it," then yeah, he is totally normal. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humour in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
$29.99
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
$29.99
Click for more info
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers, Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this startling new memoir.
The House of Fiction tells the story of Swingler's quest to find her father. As she painstakingly traces and documents clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth Jolley to protect those she loved.
The House of Fiction tells the story of Swingler's quest to find her father. As she painstakingly traces and documents clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth Jolley to protect those she loved.
The House of Fiction
$24.95
The House of Fiction
$24.95
Click for more info
A powerful story of doomed love against the backdrop of Africa ...
Wangira is caught between the traditions of his Kikuyu tribe and the disturbing new ideas of the missionaries. When, as a young warrior, he saves the life of a wealthy American photographer, he is offered the chance of a new life far away in the white man's world. Between the wars, Kenya is a land of boundless opportunity where the rich engage in hunting safaris, horse racing, outrageous parties and all the pleasures that money can buy.
Dana Northcote is a celebrated socialite, living the high life, but when Wangira uses her husband's farm in the Kenyan highlands to hide some contraband, she embarks on a dangerous, passionate affair.
Ultimately, she is forced to make a heart-rending decision that will tear her life apart and has consequences which will echo through the generations. Spanning the first half of the twentieth century and culminating in Kenya's fight for independence from the British Empire, ECHOES FROM A DISTANT LAND is a vivid evocation of a nation in turmoil, and a story of a love that dared to cross the divide.
Wangira is caught between the traditions of his Kikuyu tribe and the disturbing new ideas of the missionaries. When, as a young warrior, he saves the life of a wealthy American photographer, he is offered the chance of a new life far away in the white man's world. Between the wars, Kenya is a land of boundless opportunity where the rich engage in hunting safaris, horse racing, outrageous parties and all the pleasures that money can buy.
Dana Northcote is a celebrated socialite, living the high life, but when Wangira uses her husband's farm in the Kenyan highlands to hide some contraband, she embarks on a dangerous, passionate affair.
Ultimately, she is forced to make a heart-rending decision that will tear her life apart and has consequences which will echo through the generations. Spanning the first half of the twentieth century and culminating in Kenya's fight for independence from the British Empire, ECHOES FROM A DISTANT LAND is a vivid evocation of a nation in turmoil, and a story of a love that dared to cross the divide.
Echoes From a Distant Land
$29.99
Echoes From a Distant Land
$29.99
Click for more info
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect,' a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 - in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases,' The World According To Garp.
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile.'
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile.'
In One Person
$32.95
In One Person
$32.95
Click for more info
A history of book censorship in Australia. What we could not read, did not know, and why!
For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses.
The Censor's Library is the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, based around the author's discovery of the secret "censor's library" in the National Archive- 793 boxes of banned books, prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s.
For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses.
The Censor's Library is the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, based around the author's discovery of the secret "censor's library" in the National Archive- 793 boxes of banned books, prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The Censor's Library
$39.95
The Censor's Library
$39.95
Click for more info
One woman, one dog and an 18,000-kilometre run for a cure!
A diagnosis of breast cancer and two broken feet were not enough to stop Deborah De Williams and her loyal Border Collie Maggie from running 18,026 kilometres around Australia for breast cancer research.
A diagnosis of breast cancer and two broken feet were not enough to stop Deborah De Williams and her loyal Border Collie Maggie from running 18,026 kilometres around Australia for breast cancer research.
Running Pink
$32.95
Running Pink
$32.95
Click for more info
For 35 years, photographer Andrew Chapman has roamed Australia in search of woolsheds. Some date back to the early 19th century; some are still in use; many are tumbling away into time. His images linger like oil and lanolin stains on timer floors. There are sheep, and dogs, also the people who work in, or own these sheds. They have told Chapman their stories. This is rich social history as welcome as a drink at the end of a day's shearing.
Woolsheds
$39.95
Woolsheds
$39.95
Click for more info
In 'The Office: A Hardworking History', Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, the email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant. Amid the formality, restraint and order of office life, too, he discovers a world teeming with dramas great and small, of boredom, betrayal, distraction, discrimination, leisure and lust, meeting along the way such archetypes as the Whitehall mandarin and the Wall Street banker. Far from simply being a place we visit to earn a living, the office emerges as a way of seeing the entire world.
The Office
$45.00
The Office
$45.00
Click for more info
A bone-freezingly brilliant and gripping novel introducing an astounding, prizeworthy new voice in YA fiction. Set in the haunting and barren landscape of a new ice age, 'After the Snow' is the story of fifteen-year-old Willo, a "straggler" kid who loses his family in the opening pages. Completely alone, he is immediately flung into an icy journey of survival, adventure, friendship and self-discovery - with only the dog spirit inside his head to guide him. Meanwhile, across Britain, outlawed followers of survivalist John Blovyn are planning an escape to the fabled Islands talked of in a revolutionary book...
After The Snow
$19.99
After The Snow
$19.99
Click for more info
When I tell people that my father is kind of a total lunatic, they laugh and nod knowingly. They assure me that theirs is too, and that he is just a "typical father". And they are probably right, if the typical father runs a full-time taxidermy business out of the house, and shows up at the local bar with a miniature donkey and a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator, and thinks other people are weird for making such a big deal out of it. If the typical father says things like "Happy birthday! Here's a bathtub of raccoons!" or "We'll have to take your car. Mine has too much blood in it," then yeah, he is totally normal. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humour in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
$29.99
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
$29.99
Click for more info
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers, Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this startling new memoir.
The House of Fiction tells the story of Swingler's quest to find her father. As she painstakingly traces and documents clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth Jolley to protect those she loved.
The House of Fiction tells the story of Swingler's quest to find her father. As she painstakingly traces and documents clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth Jolley to protect those she loved.
The House of Fiction
$24.95
The House of Fiction
$24.95
Click for more info
A powerful story of doomed love against the backdrop of Africa ...
Wangira is caught between the traditions of his Kikuyu tribe and the disturbing new ideas of the missionaries. When, as a young warrior, he saves the life of a wealthy American photographer, he is offered the chance of a new life far away in the white man's world. Between the wars, Kenya is a land of boundless opportunity where the rich engage in hunting safaris, horse racing, outrageous parties and all the pleasures that money can buy.
Dana Northcote is a celebrated socialite, living the high life, but when Wangira uses her husband's farm in the Kenyan highlands to hide some contraband, she embarks on a dangerous, passionate affair.
Ultimately, she is forced to make a heart-rending decision that will tear her life apart and has consequences which will echo through the generations. Spanning the first half of the twentieth century and culminating in Kenya's fight for independence from the British Empire, ECHOES FROM A DISTANT LAND is a vivid evocation of a nation in turmoil, and a story of a love that dared to cross the divide.
Wangira is caught between the traditions of his Kikuyu tribe and the disturbing new ideas of the missionaries. When, as a young warrior, he saves the life of a wealthy American photographer, he is offered the chance of a new life far away in the white man's world. Between the wars, Kenya is a land of boundless opportunity where the rich engage in hunting safaris, horse racing, outrageous parties and all the pleasures that money can buy.
Dana Northcote is a celebrated socialite, living the high life, but when Wangira uses her husband's farm in the Kenyan highlands to hide some contraband, she embarks on a dangerous, passionate affair.
Ultimately, she is forced to make a heart-rending decision that will tear her life apart and has consequences which will echo through the generations. Spanning the first half of the twentieth century and culminating in Kenya's fight for independence from the British Empire, ECHOES FROM A DISTANT LAND is a vivid evocation of a nation in turmoil, and a story of a love that dared to cross the divide.
Echoes From a Distant Land
$29.99
Echoes From a Distant Land
$29.99
Click for more info
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect,' a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 - in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases,' The World According To Garp.
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile.'
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile.'
In One Person
$32.95
In One Person
$32.95
Click for more info
A history of book censorship in Australia. What we could not read, did not know, and why!
For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses.
The Censor's Library is the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, based around the author's discovery of the secret "censor's library" in the National Archive- 793 boxes of banned books, prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s.
For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses.
The Censor's Library is the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, based around the author's discovery of the secret "censor's library" in the National Archive- 793 boxes of banned books, prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The Censor's Library
$39.95
The Censor's Library
$39.95
Click for more info
One woman, one dog and an 18,000-kilometre run for a cure!
A diagnosis of breast cancer and two broken feet were not enough to stop Deborah De Williams and her loyal Border Collie Maggie from running 18,026 kilometres around Australia for breast cancer research.
A diagnosis of breast cancer and two broken feet were not enough to stop Deborah De Williams and her loyal Border Collie Maggie from running 18,026 kilometres around Australia for breast cancer research.
Running Pink
$32.95
Running Pink
$32.95
Foster's Little Bookshop is South Gippsland's premiere bookstore. We supply all types of books including fiction,
non-fiction, children's and special interest books. Even if we don't have it in stock we can find any book for you, so why not drop in and
see us or just have a browse - you never know you might stumble across something inspiring! We look forward to seeing you soon.
- Jan & Bob
March 19, 2012
The Bookworm
"The Hairy Bikers Perfect Pies" by Si King & Dave Myers
In their culinary homecoming, Si and Dave celebrate a dish close to their hearts. This beautifully illustrated cookbook brings together the Great British classic in 150 brand-new recipes. Featuring an extraordinary range of pies - from the sweet and savoury, deep and small and to pies that are puddings. With top tips on pastry, the failsafe methods, the secrets and the cheats, the boys will teach you how to choose the right type of pastry and filling for any occasion. Learn the rules of pastry making and how to add the right pickles, relishes and sauces to make your pie an unforgettable dish. And of course, how to make the most of those little left over bits and turn them into delicious cheese straws, jam tarts and turnovers.
"The Retro Cookbook" by the Australian Women's Weekly.This is a trip down memory lane - a beautifully designed book with pages from old cookbooks showing what we used to eat, old advertisements showing what we used to buy and wonderful modern recipes alongside their beautiful modern photographs. These recipes are for finger food and sandwiches, snacks, afternoon teas, family dinners, the Sunday roast, and puddings. They contrast the way we eat now and the way things used to be. Definitely worth an indulgent browse.
"Indochine" by Luke Nguyen
The French colonisation of
Against a backdrop of grand colonial hotels, Luke talks to chefs, bakers, farmers and family members to explore the impact the French had on what the Vietnamese eat and cook today. More than 100 recipes showcase the fusion of French and Vietnamese ingredients and techniques, interwoven with the heart-warming and personal stories Luke uncovers on his journey. As much a coffee table book as it is a useful cookbook.
"Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons" by Victoria Heywood
This is another trip down memory lane with a difference. This book brings together 500 lost recipes from the
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