Bryce Corbett

The author describes how he escaped a dead-end London job and a broken heart for the beauty, delights, and charms of Paris, revealing how he settled into French culture at its finest, fell in love with a Parisian showgirl, and made his adopted city home. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Falling in Love in the City of Light

A Town Like Paris

Rosie Batty

A profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia's domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie had suffered years of family violence, and had had intervention and custody orders in place in an effort to protect herself and her son. She believes the killing was Greg's final act of control over her. Since the events of last February, Rosie has become an outspoken crusader against domestic violence, winning hearts and mind all over Australia with her compassion, courage, grace and forgiveness. In the wake of the tragedy, Rosie's advocacy work has forced an unprecedented national focus on family violence, with the Victorian Labor government establishing Australia's first royal commission into family violence, and committing a further $30 million over four years to protect women and children at high risk of family violence. The then Victorian Police Commissioner Ken Lay called it 'the Rosie Batty factor'. In January 2015, Rosie was named Australian of the Year, 2015. Inspiring, heartfelt and profoundly moving, this is Rosie's story. A percentage of royalties from sales of this book are going to the Luke Batty Foundation.

Rosie's Story

An updated edition of the profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia's domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie had suffered years of family violence, and had had intervention and custody orders in place in an effort to protect herself and her son. Rosie has since become an outspoken and dynamic crusader against domestic violence, winning hearts and mind all over Australia with her compassion, courage, grace and forgiveness. In January 2015, Rosie was named Australian of the Year, 2015. Inspiring, heartfelt and profoundly moving, this is Rosie's story. A percentage of royalties from sales of this book are going to the Luke Batty Foundation. 'A brave, resolute and heart-breaking tale' Sydney Morning Herald 'Every Australian should read this book' Tracey Spicer 'Just finished A Mother's Story. Loved it. Cried. Got angry. Important book, beautifully written' Juanita Phillips 'This highly emotional book ... She suffers but she is not a victim. Batty is comforting and terrifying. She is protector and avenger... She has moral authority and dignity ... compelling' ABR

A Mother's Story

At the end of a nine-year relationship, stuck in a dead-end job and on the run from his broken heart Australian journalist Bryce Corbett left London for Paris, home of 'l'amour' and 'la vie boheme'. Arriving with only a suitcase and school-boy French, he finds himself an apartment and slowly launches himself into 'la vie Parisienne'. It doesn't take Bryce long to discover his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France - either with Parisienne women or French plumbers. Undeterred, Bryce is determined to make the city his own - no matter how many bottles of Bordeaux it takes. Fully embracing his newfound culture, he is exposed to some of the more unfathomable idiosyncrasies of the French, from the revealing lack of window coverings and alcohol-rationed soirees, to the exasperating non-existent customer service and the traffic black hole around the Arc de Triomphe. Just when he thinks he knows it all and Paris has offered him all she has to give, he meets a showgirl - an Australian beauty whose sequin-clad high-kicks are the toast of the Champs Elysees. Bryce might just discover that what he came to France looking for was a lot closer to home than he had ever imagined.

Bryce Corbett

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