In the Name of I by Bea Eschen
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A short and eventful autobiographical novel telling about the upbringing of a woman in Germany and her later life in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Political and cultural events on the different continents interconnect with the private life of Alannah, who fights for the realization of her dre ...Show more
A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'There will be other, bigger biographies, but none more evocative than this sampler precisely stitched in literary petit-point' The Times Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, this is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of ...Show more
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her p ...Show more
DAAS: Their Part in My Downfall: On the Road with the Doug Anthony All Stars by Paul Livingston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Under the guise of his alter ego Flacco, Paul Livingston basked in the reflected glory of Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler and their anarchic comedy incarnation the Doug Anthony All Stars throughout the heady years of the late 80's and into the early 90's. Flacco and Paul now find themsel ...Show more
Off the Rails: the Pauline Hanson Trip by Margo Kingston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political
After Pauline Hanson's doomed 1998 election campaign, and the scandals and deregistration which followed, the media declared Pauline Hanson a spent force and One Nation a dead party. The 2001 Qld election has proved them wrong: Hanson is back. In her new foreword to this book Margo Kingston not only out ...Show more
Good Wives? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me 1845-2001 by Margaret Forster
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1848 Mary Moffatt became the devoted wife of the missionary and explorer David Livingstone in Africa -and it eventually killed her. A hundred and twelve years later, in 1960, Margaret Forster married her school sweetheart Hunter Davies in a London Register Office- and forty years later they are still ...Show more
Henry Lawson: While the Billy Boils - the original newspaper versions by Henry Lawson; Paul Eggert (ed.)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his collection While the Billy Boils (Angus & Robertson, 1896). Lawson was not responsible for their ordering and he had to give ground on their texts, especial ...Show more
Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's 'When the Billy Boils' by Paul Eggert
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he str ...Show more