The Commando by Ben McKelvey
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. As her art evolves, Paula is torn betwee ...Show more
The Shot by Gary Ramage
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The heart-stoppingly adrenalin-charged - and often dangerous - life and times of Australian war photographer, Gary Ramage. He goes where the troops go - but with a camera, not a gun. As Australia's premier war photographer - and as a former soldier - Gary Ramage has been in and out of just about every c ...Show more
Speed Demons: My Autobiography by Steve Harmison
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This promises to be the most explosive and compelling cricket book of 2017. Following his rise from homesick bowler to Ashes hero, Harmison lifts the lid on the English game, explains how mental health issues nearly ruined his career and explains his ongoing battle with depression. Hilariously frank, br ...Show more
Childhood in Malabar-Mod Class by Kamala Das
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
It is the Second World War and Kamala and her brother are removed from their parents' home in Calcutta to the safer environs of their village in northern Kerala. At once an outsider and an integral part of her ancestral home, Kamala struggles to fathom the intricacies of class, caste and language. But s ...Show more
Khrushchev by William Taubman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political
William Taubman's brilliant biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts - how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin' ...Show more
The Putin Interviews : Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin by Robert (FRW) Oliver (CON); Scheer Stone
$29.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Showtime Documentary Films
Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span ...Show more
Laid Bare by Jesse Fink
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Laid Bare is Jesse Fink's startlingly honest, deeply personal account of emotional and mental oblivion after divorce, interwoven with his experiences as an accidental `player' in a world where dating is a blood sport and finding a true connection is harder than ever because of the distractions provided ...Show more
This Long Pursuit - Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Across three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully... A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' The Oldie Thirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps - a revolutionary book that would become a bestseller and influence profoundly a whole g ...Show more
To Catch a King by Charles Spencer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Guided by its various twists and turns To Catch a King is an unputdownable book which tells an old story with new eyes, challenging our polarised notions of royalism, nationalism and loyalty. King Charles I's life ended with his neck: he was beheaded outside his London palace in January 1649. It was pre ...Show more
Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having 'the most acute mind' of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, ge ...Show more
Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America's finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us."--Neil Gaiman "I fell in love with Maupin's effervesce ...Show more