Telling Tales - Likely and Unlikely Stories from a Lucky Life by Hugh Patrick O'Keefe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Want to know all about... ...the frog’s condom? ...the Iroquois hunk on the cable car? ...Mrs Whitlam’s good manners? ...the drag queen’s ‘grandson’? ...the gin and urine nightcap? ...the English Resistance fighter? ...DickCam? Search no further. This sequel to Hugh Patrick O’Keefe’s bestselling ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A memoir by Wendy McCarthy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Educator, activist, agent of change - the life and career of one of Australia's most influential women. 'McCarthy's advocacy and passion for women's rights has spurred a new generation. We wouldn't be where we are without her.' Sydney Morning Herald, 'Who Mattered in 2019' 'A woman of kindness and str ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love. In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most int ...Show more
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigo ...Show more