A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the world wars. "Wonderful . . . I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end."--Frances Mayes, author of "Under the Tuscan Sun." 63 illustrations throughout.
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutio ...Show more
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
$27.95 AUD
Category: General
In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman made a voyage that took her from the familiar, loved country of her childhood to the unknown New World. Her life was irrevocably divided in two. In this personal memoir, she evokes the landscapes of postwar Poland - recently war-torn, suffering oppression, yet also the la ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Abacus Bks.
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...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
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
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