Off the Charts by Georgie Carroll
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids, holding hands, keeping things ticking - and always with a smile on their face. In Off The Charts, Australia's favour ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of ...Show more
A Touch of India: Chutney Mary, Charming Irregularities and an Unlikely Romance by Valerie Britton-Wilson
$34.00 AUD
Category: General
In A Touch of India, Valerie Britton-Wilson discovers the challenges and charms of modern India whilst uncovering the life of her mother Pearl, a young Anglo-Indian woman growing up in end-of-Empire Bombay.Pearl was a journalist with the Times of India in the 1940s who unexpectedly fell in love with a b ...Show more
To Hell and High Water: Walking in the Footsteps of Henry Lawson by Gregory Bryan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto by Victoria Schofield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A memoir of Victoria Schofield's thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Benazir Bhutto. who rose to be one of the most powerful politicians in Asia, set against a backdrop of seismic political events. A memoir of Victoria Schofield's thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Ben ...Show more
Dissenting Opinions by Michael Sexton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The term "dissenting opinions" is normally used in the law to describe the judgments of those members of appellate courts who take a different view in a particular case from their colleagues who form the majority and effectively decide the question before the court. I have used it, however, in relation ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? and other thoughts on modern life by Pandora Sykes
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like they're g ...Show more
The Most I Could Be: A Renaissance Story by Dale Kent
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Of all the exhilarating slogans that galvanised women in the 1970s, determined to change ourselves and the world, the one that really inspired me was- 'Be the most that you can!' Even as a small girl, I was eager to be the most I possibly could. This desire drove my life." Raised in an aspirational Au ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. 'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... T ...Show more
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversat ...Show more
I Don't Remember by Hilton Als
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
Hilton Als grew up in a corner of Brooklyn scarred by riots, racial segregation and sexual prejudice. As a young teenager, he began to glimpse possibility in the different cultures and ways of being he encountered through high school; in the black men and white men who found ways to be together. As a bu ...Show more
An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold by Mary Hoban
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The page-turning biography of an Australian woman who refused to bend to the expectations of her husband and her time. Julia Sorell was an original. A colonial belle from Tasmania, vivacious and warm-hearted, Julia's marriage to Tom Arnold in 1850 propelled her into one of the most renowned families in ...Show more