Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Ambition and Betrayal (PB) by Laurence Leamer
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A JUICY, ENGAGING READ.' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, th ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma.A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of qu ...Show more
Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief by Katriona O'Sullivan
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you will ever meet' Guardian As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$37.00 AUD
Category: General
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident ...Show more
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life by Kristine Philipp
$37.00 AUD
Category: General
Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that). Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious ...Show more
Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self by Annabel Abbs
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
THE NIGHT SELF IS . . .- Vulnerable- Curious- Fearful- Enchanted- CourageousIn the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs experienced a series of bereavements. As she grieved, she kept busy by day, but at night sleep eluded her. And yet her sleeplessness led to a profound and unexpected discovery: her Night Self. ...Show more
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Lov ...Show more
Coco Chanel: An Essence of Mystery by Isabelle Fiemeyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
An updated authorized edition of Isabelle Fiemeyer's literary biography of Coco Chanel, which demystifies the legendary designer's life. Coco Chanel was an emancipated fashion revolutionary. Raised by nuns in an orphanage, she rose to become a star of the world of couture and a byword for stylish elegan ...Show more
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert MacFarlane 'Diarmuid Hester's beautifully written psycho-biography explores obscure corners of places as sites of hidden queer histories ... haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris Kraus At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloi ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more