On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life by Lesley Blanch; Georgia de Chamberet
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part of her life travelling the remote areas her books ...Show more
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the ...Show more
A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from 'Lewis Carroll,' Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly every medication possible; her husband and children are suffering with her. So she opens the vial, places two drops on her tongue, and joi ...Show more
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla Valentine
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. Her working life has been spent with the dead, and in Past Mortems she reveals what really happens behind the doors of our houses of the dead, or, as they're more commonly known - our ...Show more
Women Who Read are Dangerous by Stefan Bollman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
What is it about a woman reading that has captivated hundreds of artists over the centuries? Stefan Bollmann's Women Who Read Are Dangerous explores this popular subject in more than 70 artworks--drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints--by iconic artists such as Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Suzann ...Show more
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batt ...Show more
The Spy Who Loved Castro: How I Was Recruited by the CIA to Kill Fidel Castro by Marita Lorenz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Few can say they've seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she travelled to Cuba where she met and fell i ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian-with-some-Turkish-and-Moroccan-background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a "tea cosy" there could not be a more unlikely place on earth ...Show more
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the best-selling author of "How to Live," a spirited account of one of the twentieth century s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the y ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Becket vol 4 by Samuel Beckett
$89.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett
This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life. During these years he produced many of his finest and most concentrated works for theatre, plays that include ...Show more
The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence by Catherine Lacey
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund W ...Show more
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case by Michael Rosen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola fl ...Show more