Farangi Girl: A Memoir of My Mother, Parties with Princes and Growing Up in Iran by Ashley Dartnell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners ...Show more
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A sparkling second book from the bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake in which Crosley leaves her familiar stomping ground of Manhattan to travel The World: elegant writing, mordant wit and genuine insight.
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay
$16.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats. In "Young Romantics", Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
The Rain Tree by Mirabel Osler
$35.95 AUD
Category: General
A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, Phyllis's lifelong friend and fellow student under Ezra Pound, their introduction to the L ...Show more
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace by Rye Barcott
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Fl ...Show more
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
In 1987, 17-year-old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers--this is her story of her time as a guerrillaHow could it be that a well-educated, middle-class, Catholi ...Show more
Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life by Eileen Harrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years in a mission to discovery of her talent as a painter "It's bad luck to catch a black swan." Eileen Harrison grew up at in an Aboriginal mission station in the 1950s as one of 11 children in a tight-knit, loving family. ...Show more
Stieg and Me: Memories of a Life with Stieg Larsson by Eva Gabrielsson
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
There is only one person who can tell the real Stieg Larsson story, and that is his lifelong companion Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book.The keys to the 'Stieg Larsson phenomenon' all lie with Stieg Larsson, the man, and no one knew him like Eva. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, of Sti ...Show more
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
Most people today, if they have heard of her, associate Constance Spry with the cookery book bearing her name. But Connie was much, much more than the author of a bestselling cookery book. She was deeply unconventional, extremely charming and very determined; Spry's life took her from the back streets o ...Show more
Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 a ...Show more