Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, in ...Show more
The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe B ...Show more
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits by Raven Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE 'Irresistibly readable.' DOLLY ALDERTON 'You'll laugh. You'll cry.' LENA DUNHAM A hilarious, smart and incredibly singular debut from Raven Smith, whose exploration of the minutiae of everyday modern life and culture is totally unique and painf ...Show more
Working - Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Robert A. Caro, 'one of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times), is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose biographies are widely considered to be masterpieces.In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing ...Show more
The Auschwitz Photographer by Luca Crippa; Maurizio Onnis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A t ...Show more
Shanghai Acrobat by Jingjing Xue
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
For readers of Mao's Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia. Jingjing Xue was born in China in the 1950s, during one of the worst times in the reign of communist leader Mao Zedong, or Chairman Mao. Mao's extreme f ...Show more
Monsters by Alison Croggon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A hybrid of memoir and essay from award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon.'This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination ... grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible ...'I was born as p ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognizable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism, and activism. "I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two In ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more