Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster by TOM WHYMAN
$26.95 AUD
Category: General
A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world - can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life? In a conversation reported by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, Franz Kafka speculated that we human beings who are alive today are ...Show more
Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together by Germaine Leece, Sonya Tsakalakis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It's an old cliché that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resona ...Show more
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires - The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'My New Year's Eve Toast- to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace' PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (New Year's Eve, 1947) Made famous by the great success of her psychologic ...Show more
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books a ...Show more
Princess Mary - The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford; Hugo Vickers (Foreword by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'At last a biography of Princess Mary, the Queen's aunt - and a good one ... She has long deserved a full study and in Elisabeth Basford, she has found a dedicated and sympathetic biographer, who has done her full justice' Hugo Vickers Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal ...Show more
Sharon Stone - The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to mak ...Show more
Beyond Climate Grief: A journey of love, snow, fire and an enchanted beer can by Jonica Newby
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?In this magical, often funny and deeply moving personal story, award-winning science reporter Jonica Newby explores how to navigate the emotional turmoil of climate change.After researching what global warming will do to the snow count ...Show more
Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Page-Barbour Lectures
In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of th ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more
The Sphinx - The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
**The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020**'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling'Sunday Times'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account of a unique figure, the stuff of great literature' Simon Callow, THE SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping . . . jaw-dropping stor ...Show more
The Barbizon - The New York hotel that set women free by Paulina Bren
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more