Australian Independent Bookseller

All the best books from your local independent bookseller

My Family and Other Animus

My Family and Other Animus

by James Jeffrey

From the Strewth columnist and parliamentary sketch writer for The Australian

Format
Paperback
Category
Non-Fiction
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Publish Date
April 2018

For the young James Jeffrey, the day his parents split was like the splitting of the atom. Life took on a seismic instability filled with madness and strain and vendetta and daftness and acts of love, both beautiful and misguided. Yet, what could have been a calamitous upbringing turned instead into an education. For better or worse, his family handed out lessons that would guide him through life, into marriage, and eventually parenthood. My Family and Other Animus is an ode to his family.

Other titles you should consider ...

The Snakes

Sadie Jones

Rebecca Huntley on Progress and Politics

Rebecca Huntley

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

Felicity McLean

The Book That Never Ends

Beck Stanton, Matt Stanton

  See More...

Not all products are available in all stores.

Popular Sites

Miles

The Miles Franklin Award

Stella
The Stella Prize


Capture

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation 


Search Book Title/Author

This Week's Top 10

  1. Fing David Walliams
  2. The Scholar Dervla McTiernan
  3. The Rosie Result Graeme Simsion
  4. The Fast 800 Dr Michael Mosley
  5. No Friend but the Mountains Behrouz Boochani
  6. Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton
  7. Ottolenghi SIMPLE Yotam Ottolenghi
  8. Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture Bruce Pascoe
  9. 12 Rules for Life:An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B. Peterson
  10. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman

Source: Nielsen BookScan
Date: 2 March 2019