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True North

A Memoir

By: Catherine Deveny

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An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life’s upheavals – and how to live authentically 'A bombshell of honesty and hope. This book has the power to heal hearts.' —Clare Bowditch 'Catherine Deveny is a blazing light in a world that is often grim. She brings her immense generosity of spirit to this beautiful memoir, and we are blessed to have her.' —Clementine Ford When writer Catherine Deveny faced the end of a seventeen-year relationship with the father of her children, she had no idea what lay on the other side of the months of tumult: she just knew she had to create space for a new life. But this wasn't the first time Deveny had taken a plunge into the unknown or let go of conventional assumptions. In True North, she shares how she emerged from an oppressive Catholic upbringing in working-class Reservoir, found her tribe in Fitzroy's sharehouses in the '80s, and learnt to live life on her own terms as she navigated the highs and lows of a creative life, family legacies and intimate relationships. 'This is the kind of story that stays with you long after you turn the final page.' —Michael Lallo, The Age 'Breathtaking.' —Chrissie Swan

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1743821832

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Mental

Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know About Mental Health

By: Dr. Steve Ellen,Catherine Deveny

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Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know About Mental Health

By: Dr. Steve Ellen,Catherine Deveny

Become your own mental health expert Mental illness is too often portrayed with a sense of despair, as if it’s a life sentence. Nothing could be further from the truth. Virtually everyone improves with help, and most of the help is relatively easy to access. How do we define mental illness? What does a diagnosis mean? What should you ask your doctor before you begin treatment? Are there alternatives to medication? What does the research show actually works? Practitioner and professor of psychiatry Dr Steve Ellen and popular comedian Catherine Deveny combine forces to demystify the world of mental health. Sharing their personal experiences of mental illness and an insider perspective on psychiatry, they unpack the current knowledge about conditions and treatments. Punctuated with anecdotes and real-life stories, Mental covers everything from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia, personality disorders and substance abuse. This updated edition includes a new chapter on coping with the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic, as well as updates on new drugs and therapies. Whether you have a mental illness or support someone who does, Mental offers clear practical help, empowering you with an arsenal of tips and techniques to help build your resilience Dr Steve Ellen is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and the Director of Psychosocial Oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He is a broadcaster on 3RRR, a weekly regular on ABC Melbourne and has written for medical journals, textbooks and print media. Catherine Deveny is a writer, commentator and comedian. She is the author of eight books, including Use Your Words, The Happiness Show, Free to a Good Home, Say When and It’s Not My Fault They Print Them.

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1925435717

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True North

A Memoir

By: Catherine Deveny

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Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know About Mental Health

By: Dr. Steve Ellen,Catherine Deveny

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Free to a Good Home

By: Catherine Deveny

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Free to a Good Home

By: Catherine Deveny

Take two reality pills and call me in the morning. Swine Flu. Financial meltdown. It's been a bad year for pigs and pigs in suits. The only thing for it is a good dose of Catherine Deveny, who each week in the Age puts everything into perspective with her trademark iconoclastic wit. Free to a Good Home includes her thoughts on gifted children and breakfast television, sexy billboards and the bill of rights. She reflects on her youngest child's first day at school, and on how to be happy in hard times. Fearlessly funny and always provocative, Deveny is the perfect antidote to the modern world's ills. Can anyone explain why I did this? I went to the chemist and bought this crap I put on my face to make me look younger. I put the jar on the counter. The chemist girl said, 'Is this stuff any good?' I said, 'Yeah.' She said, 'Really?' I said, 'I'm sixty.' Eyes like saucers, mouth agape, she gasped, 'OH MY GOD! Sixty! Toula! Fatima! Kelly! Come and check out this old lady. She's sixty!' So the other chemist girls scurried over and after a bit of oohing and aahing one said, 'Oh my God! Sixty? You look like you're forty-five!' I'm forty. Chemist girls, one. Smart-arse, zero.

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192182557X

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It's Not My Fault They Print Them

By: Catherine Deveny

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It's Not My Fault They Print Them

By: Catherine Deveny

If I wasn't such a loudmouth, I'd be an enigma. Each week in the pages of the Age, Catherine Deveny tackles the big issues of modern life with hilarity and passion and in her own inimitable style. From 4WD owners to Nick Giannopolous to women who take their husband's name, Deveny isn't backward in coming forward. It's Not My Fault They Print Them collects Deveny's funniest, most biting work, published and unpublishable (till now). Bound to spark heated debate and riotous laughter, it includes her views on elective caesareans, private education, McLeod's Daughters, Sam Newman and much, much more. Prepare to be tickled, cajoled, outraged, baited and amused. ''The most memorable flash of the Beaconsfield mining disaster coverage for me was the moment I saw Eddie McGuire down at the Beaconsfield Pub holding a beer and saying 'mate' a lot. Like many people, my first thought was, 'Haven't these people been through enough?''' - Catherine Deveny.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458798674

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Use Your Words

A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing

By: Catherine Deveny

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Use Your Words

A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing

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Want to write? Got a memoir, novel, screenplay or blog in your back drawer? Need to get ‘unstuck’? This is the magic pill you’ve been looking for. In Use Your Words writer and comedian Catherine Deveny reveals the secrets that have made her ‘Gunnas’ Writing Masterclasses sell-out successes around the country. With humour and passion, she explains the struggles all writers face and reveals how to overcome them. Whether you’re already published or just starting out, writing for others or purely for self-expression, Use Your Words has the tips, tricks, techniques and honest truths to get you writing. You’ll learn how creativity is like a vending machine, how writing is like a magnet and how not to die with your light inside you. Wait no longer – smash through procrastination and fear and get those words on the page. ‘Everyone has a book in them. Before you write yours, however, read this. It’s brilliant. The world will thank you.’ —Clare Bowditch ‘Finally the truth about writing! Buy this book if you want to get the job done.’ —Chrissie Swan ‘The most readable book on writing ever written.’ —Dee Madigan ‘As practical and profane as the woman who wrote it.’ —Benjamin Law ‘Catherine Deveny’s no-nonsense attitude and comedic genius make learning fun. If you’ve always wanted to write but never thought you could, banish those thoughts right now.’ —Clementine Ford ‘An insightful, funny, honest how-to, go-do, firecracker-up-you bible for the emerging and established author alike. Buy it, read it, and WRITE.’ —Maxine Beneba Clarke ‘One of the big risks of motivational books such as this is they can lapse into cheerleader cliches. Excellent instincts allow Deveny to avoid this pitfall. Her views on feedback are worth pinning up behind your desk.’ —The Age

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Black Inc.

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1925203972

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A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite

By: Catherine O'Leary,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

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A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite

By: Catherine O'Leary,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

A comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Martín Gaite's work. Carmen Martín Gaite produced a large body of work in various genres over the course of her five-decade career, though she is primarily known as a novelist, short story writer, and social commentator. Her work at times reflects, and at times defies, the pattern of development in Spanish fiction since the 1950s. This Companion offers a re-reading of Martín Gaite's works, emphasizing her early experimentalism which culminated in mid-career works (notably El cuarto de atrás), and stressing how, in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the majority of Spanish novelists were engaged in a critique of history, Martín Gaite turned to the writing of cultural history, exploring its intersection with narrative fiction in a positivist rather than a nihilistic mode. Her exploration of gender issues, particularly mother-child relations, towards the end of her career anticipated new directions in feminist thought. Discussions of often-ignored works, such as poetry, drama, children's literature, and literary translations, offer insight into sidelined aspects of this writer's literary output. Catherine O'Leary is Reader in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Professor of Spanish at the University of Warwick.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1855662817

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Free to a Good Home

By: Catherine Deveny

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Say When

By: Catherine Deveny

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Say When

By: Catherine Deveny

At 2 a.m., everything seems like a good idea . . . In 2008 the Pope came to Sydney, petrol prices soared and Australia proudly became the fattest nation on earth. Big Brother got the chop, Sam Newman mauled a mannequin and the Logies were as wonderfully bad as ever. Thank goodness for Catherine Deveny: always ready with a salty aside or a provocative question. Each week in the Age she brings her passionate, irreverent wit to bear on the big issues of the day. Say When collects Deveny's funniest, sharpest and most outrageous columns from the past year. Whether taking on God, climate change or Kerri-Anne Kennerley, she is sure to leave you begging for more.

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1863953434

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The Happiness Show

A Novel

By: Catherine Deveny

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The Happiness Show

A Novel

By: Catherine Deveny

She ached for him. She longed for him. She missed the way he made her feel and how funny and smart and sexy she felt with him. And young. She missed the version of herself that she had left behind." At thirty-eight, Lizzie Quealy thinks she has things sorted: a happy relationship, a couple of gorgeous kids, a steadfast best friend and a job she loves. But when Lizzie bumps into Tom, an old flame from her globe-trotting twenties, her predictable life is turned on its head. Tom is her 'unfinished business': the man she might have spent her life with, if things had gone a little bit differently. Ten years on, the spark is still there - but how far is Lizzie prepared to go to recapture it, and at what cost? Set in Melbourne, London and Bali, The Happiness Show is a refreshingly honest story of love, fidelity and the messiness of second chances. Sexy and hilarious, it explores the rules and taboos of contemporary relationships - and what happens when they stand in the way of one woman's pursuit of happiness.

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145966180X

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Say When

By: Catherine Deveny

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It's Not My Fault They Print Them

By: Catherine Deveny

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Use Your Words

A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing

By: Catherine Deveny

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Say when (Dyslexic Edition)

By: Catherine Deveny

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Say when (Dyslexic Edition)

By: Catherine Deveny

In 2008 the Pope came to Sydney, petrol prices soared and Australia proudly became the fattest nation on earth. Big Brother got the chop, Sam Newman mauled a mannequin and the Logies were as wonderfully bad as ever. Thank goodness for Catherine Deveny. Always ready with a subversive aside or a provocative question, each week in the Age she brings her passionate, irreverent wit to bear on the big issues of the day. Say When collects Devenys funniest, sharpest and most outrageous columns from the past year and some unpublished work, as well. Whether taking on God, climate change or Kerri-Anne Kennerley, she is sure to leave you begging for more.

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1525244124

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The Ties That Bind

By: Catherine Deveny

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The Ties That Bind

By: Catherine Deveny

A poignant and thought-provoking debut novel, 'Ties That Bind' takes a clear-eyed look at the bonds between people and the ways in which - against all odds - some can never be broken.

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1906964130

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True North

True North

Mental

Mental

True North

True North

Mental

Mental

Free to a Good Home

Free to a Good Home

It's Not My Fault They Print Them

It's Not My Fault They Print Them

Use Your Words

Use Your Words

A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite

A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite

Free to a Good Home

Free to a Good Home

Say When

Say When

The Happiness Show

The Happiness Show

Say When

Say When

It's Not My Fault They Print Them

It's Not My Fault They Print Them

Use Your Words

Use Your Words

Say when (Dyslexic Edition)

Say when (Dyslexic Edition)

The Ties That Bind

The Ties That Bind

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