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
The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Somaly Mam was abandoned as a baby and looked after by her grandmother until she disappeared. She was then taken into the care of a man she called 'grandfather', but was treated no better than an unpaid servant. sold. Raped at twelve, Somaly was forced to marry at fifteen and then sold to a brothel. She ...Show more
Rifling Through My Drawers by Clarissa Dickson Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositi ...Show more
James Lees-Milne by Michael Bloch
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
James Lees-Milne (1908--97) -- known to friends as Jim -- is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth-century Pepys'. In this long-awaited b ...Show more