Fracture: Trauma, Success and the Origins of Greatness by Matthew Parris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories. Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frida Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that stil ...Show more
Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more
Kate Kelly: The True Story of Ned Kelly's Little Sister by Rebecca Wilson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time.Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously fou ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron de Hart
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
'A vivid account of a remarkable life' --The Washington Post In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography -- fifteen years of interviews and research in the making -- historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her adv ...Show more
Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Mafia and the Movies by Gianni Russo; Patrick Picciarelli (As told to)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The rollicking adventures of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleo ...Show more
Sybille Bedford - An Appetite for Life by Selina Hastings
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The first full and intimate biography of writer and bon viveur Sybille Bedford's unparalleled life Born in Germany to aristocratic parents, Sybille Bedford's (1911-2006) life contained all the grand feeling and seismic event of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death ...Show more
Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag's Rules for Life by Nat's What I Reckon
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Nat’s What I Reckon was the tattooed lockdown saviour we didn’t know we needed, rescuing us from packet food, jar sauce and total boredom with his hilarious viral recipe videos that got us cooking at home like champions again. Now that we’ve cooked our way out of lockdown and are wondering what the hell ...Show more
Friends and Enemies - A Memoir by Barbara Amiel
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Barbara Amiel's long-awaited memoir is shockingly honest, richly detailed and pulls few punches.Ms. Amiel's much talked-about life has been a subject of endless fascination for the media, many unauthorized biographies, as well as screen depictions. An instinctive feminist and now a foe of feminism's pol ...Show more
Notes on a Silencing - A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
$50.00 AUD
$64.99 (23% off)
Category: General
A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her -- at any cost.When the elite St. Paul's School came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy C ...Show more
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women - A Memoir by Wayétu Moore
$50.00 AUD
Category: General
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who ...Show more
Desert Notebooks - Journals for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich "has built a potent memorial to our own ongoing end-times" (The New York Times Book Review). As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us abo ...Show more