Come Home You Little Bastards by Carl Beauchamp
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Born in inner-Sydney to an alcoholic mother and an absent father, Carl Beauchamp and his brother Neville ran wild until they were taken into care. That care turned out to be a nightmare, with the boys placed in separate boys' homes, and in Carl's case in the hands of sexual predators. The boys survived, ...Show more
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Winner of the Edgar Award in Critical/Biographical Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Bo ...Show more
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Daphne Sheldrick
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Grand Hotel Abyss by Stuart Jeffries
$39.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Hork ...Show more
Shop Girl by Mary Portas
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
"* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn't choking back fits of giggles at Holy Communion or eating Chappie dog food for a bet, she was accidentally setting fire to the local school. Mary was ...Show more
Goat (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Memoir by Brad Land
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nick Jonas, thissearing memoir of fraternity culture and the perils of hazingprovides an unprecedented windowinto the emotional landscape of young men. Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, ninetee ...Show more
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel
$60.00 AUD
Category: General
The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. "Eyes on the Street" is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking b ...Show more
Don't Fence Me in: Grassroots Wisdom from a Country Gal by Rachael Treasure
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Take your life by the horns with this gorgeous collection of feel-good stories, sayings and life lessons. Bestselling author Rachael Treasure serves up a dose of pure positivity with a side of down-to-earth cowgirl wisdom. Accompanied by charming illustrations, these bite-sized morsels of home-grown ad ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the USA, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles ...Show more
Kenneth Clark: the Authorised Biography: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The life of brilliant polymath Kenneth Clark - director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, who in 1969, achieved international acclaim as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation. The book offers a history of the arts in the twentieth ...Show more
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birthday - the 8th of December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception - he and his mother would journey by train to the capital city, passing frosted pink fields at dawn, to arrive at Westland Row and the beginni ...Show more
Lucky Man: Michael J. Fox Memoir by Michael J. Fox
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announc ...Show more