The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$20.00 AUD
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Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
$23.00 AUD
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Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight . . . 'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easte ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$35.00 AUD
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A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more
The Pulling by Adele Dumont
$30.00 AUD
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When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania - compulsive hair-pulling - it makes sense of ...Show more
Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul by Wroe
$55.00 AUD
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A dazzlingly original blend of memoir, essay, biography and poetry, reflecting on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page, by the acclaimed biographer and obituarist I think of my work as catching souls. It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life. A dazzlingly ...Show more
Coco Chanel: An Essence of Mystery by Isabelle Fiemeyer
$35.00 AUD
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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
Lunch with the FT (Financial Times) A Second Helping by Lionel Barber
$36.99 AUD
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Lunch with the FT has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 30 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world.The column is now a well-established institution, which has reinvigorated the art of conversation in the convivial, intima ...Show more
The Family Law: New Edition by Benjamin Law
$30.00 AUD
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Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a ...Show more
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrere
$33.00 AUD
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This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$23.00 AUD
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'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams'Michael Cunningham, a ...Show more
Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord
$25.00 AUD
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Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a book about one single break-up'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality.' Dolly Alderton'Painful while it sloughs away the dead romantic ideals, leaving you cleansed, rebor ...Show more
Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine
$24.99 AUD
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Rock stars to royalty, society to sobriety, get to know the real Susannah Constantine in the hottest memoir of the year'Sensational, juicy, gossipy, filthy and bravely honest in equal measure, Susannah Constantine's memoir is a rollicking romp through the upper middle classes' SUNDAY TIMES, 'BEST BIOGRA ...Show more