Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
Now that it's all over I find myself thinking about family history and family memories; the stories that hold a family together, and the acts that can split it apart . . . ' In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The ...Show more
L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home by David Lebovitz
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his adopted home city, he never imagined he would encounter so much inexplicable red tape while contending with the famously inconsistent European work ethic and hours. Lebovitz maintains his distinctive sense of humor with the help of h ...Show more
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world loo ...Show more
Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son by Mark Colvin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Light and Shadowis the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent. Mark covered local and global events for the ABC for more than four decades, reporting on ...Show more
My Life Our Times by Gordon Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight ...Show more
Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama by Nick Haramis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization; her cultural imprint is as nuanced as it is indelible. She used her time in the White House to fight for women, minorities, and health and education advocates. At the same time, her own genre-busting style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to ...Show more
In Shock: From Doctor to Patient - What I Learned About Medicine's Inhumanity by Dr. Rana Awdish
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring multiple major surgeries and a series of organ failures. ...Show more
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black by Jesse Fink
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In the early hours of 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, lead singer of the rock band AC/DC, left The Music Machine in Camden, London, with a man called Alistair Kinnear, whereupon he lost consciousness and was left to sleep in Alistair's Renault 5, parked outside Alistair's East Dulwich apartment. That even ...Show more
Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now, Simon Fenwick, archivist of the Leigh Fermor papers, tells Joan's story in Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor. A talented photographer, Joan defied the social conve ...Show more
If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir by Ilana Kurshan
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, liana Kurshan joined the world's largest book club, learning dafyomi, Hebrew for "daily page' of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a ro ...Show more
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie the Pooh by Ann Thwaite
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. But the fictional Christopher ...Show more
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar - about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making. 'My aunt called our two families the Mighty Franks. But, she said, you and I, Lovey, are a thing apart. The two of us have pu ...Show more