My Vice-Regal Life: Diaries 1978 to 1982 by Lady Anna Cowen
$70.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Sunday, 8 January 1978 I have decided to keep a diary during Zelman's term of office as Governor General. I have kept diaries of three recent overseas journeys, and have been pleased that I had, because one forgets so much and the re-reading of a sentence can bring whole occasions, scenes, and otherwise ...Show more
Charlatan by Catherine Jinks
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Thomas Guthrie Carr is charged by Eliza Gray with mesmerising her and raping her while she was under his influence. But if mesmerism and Mr Carr are shams, was Eliza raped? In the tradition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Charlatan is the story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case involving a l ...Show more
Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s by Tom Doyle
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In August 1970 Elton John achieved overnight fame after a rousing performance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles; over the next five years he was unstoppable, scoring seven consecutive number 1 albums and sixteen Top 10 singles in America. But behind his outre image and comedy glasses lay a desperately sh ...Show more
Gavin Maxwell: A Life by Douglas Botting
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive adventurer, brave and handsome, with a deep sympathy for the underdog, a wonderfully curious mind and a dogged commitment to discovering the truth. It was said of him that he was loved by women, had sex with men but his emotional life was ruled by animals. ...Show more
Lawsie: Well you Wanted to Know by John Laws
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
John Laws is acknowledged as the greatest radio broadcaster Australia has produced. For more than 60 years he has ruled the airwaves, making the 'talk back' genre his own and inspiring a raft of imitators. Still going strong into his 80s, so much has been written about his life Laws, forthe first time, ...Show more
Mates - The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson by Gregory Bryan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was developed in his writing. Lawson authority Gregory Bryan has written a fascinating dual biography of Henry Lawson and his great mate and fellow writer, Jim Gordon (who wrote as Jim Grahame).
All I Know: A memoir of love, loss and life by Mary Coustas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Starting with a colourful childhood in Collingwood and Doncaster, under the shadow of her father's mortality, and ending in sunny Bondi, supported by a tight circle of girlfriends who got her through a death even more painful, Mary Coustas takes us on a journey through three deaths that changed her life ...Show more
The Duchess by Penny Junor
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The last untold account of the biggest crisis to hit the royals since the abdication ... Explosive biography by Britain's top royal author ... A gripping story of human frailty, love, loss, sadness, and tragedy' Daily MailThe relationship between Charles, Prince of Wales a ...Show more
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known ...Show more
Things That Helped: a Memoir of Illness and Recovery by Jessica Friedmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Through the tide of hormones surging within my body, and the little runnels of blood, and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep. In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postp ...Show more
Cardinal - The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within ...Show more
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award--winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isa ...Show more