The Morning They Came for Us Dispatches from Syria by Janine Di Giovanni
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, marking the beginning of a long relationship with the country, as she began reporting from both sides of the conflict, through its descent into bloody war. Drawn to the stories of the ordinary people caught up in the fighting, Syria came to consume ...Show more
Primary School Confidential: Confessions from the Classroom by Woog
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Popular columnist and blogger Mrs Woog lifts the lid on a world that's part jungle, part nursery, a place both sweet and feral, where the rule of law is tenuous at best and primitive desires hold sway over order and discipline. And wait till you see the children!..We're talking about primary school, tha ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
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'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.' - The Times In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. Ther ...Show more
Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
$30.00 AUD
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When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother, Wyatt. Jonas preferred sports and trucks and many of the things little boys were 'supposed' to like; but Wyatt liked ...Show more
Redeemable: A Memoir of Darkness and Hope by Erwin James
$30.00 AUD
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Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His teen ...Show more
Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth by Jack Sutherland
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Jack Sutherland, the narrator and protagonist of this memoir has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. A confirmed alcoholic in his early teens, by his twenties he was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars most notably Michael Stipe, Ru Paul and Mickey Rourke. His work t ...Show more
Chasing Asylum by Eva Orner
$30.00 AUD
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Filmmaker Eva Orner takes us on a personal, gripping and compelling journey to show us how she came to make her documentary about Australia's asylum seeker policies. 'My work as a filmmaker has taken me to some wild, dangerous places ...It's been a crazy, nomadic kind of life, taking me to conflict zone ...Show more
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Nora Ephron
$30.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
For fans of When Harry Met Sally and readers of I Feel Bad About My Neck (which is to say, almost everyone!) comes an indispensible collection of wit and wisdom from the late, great Nora EphronA hilarious and revealing look at one of America's most beloved screenwriters. From the beginning of her career ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
$20.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
$25.00 AUD
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*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2 FACT NOT FICTION BOOKCLUB* 'I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond which would last a life-time' Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seek ...Show more
Modern Romance : An Investigation by Aziz Ansari; Eric Klinenberg
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation's most popular and sharpest comedic voices At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the ...Show more
The Passion of Mademoiselle S. by Jean-Yves Berthault
$30.00 AUD
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Paris, 1928: two lovers are conducting a secret and deeply erotic affair. Charles is a married man with a respectable office job when he embarks on a journey of wild sexual discovery with Simone, whose voracious appetite for the erotic is not confined to the bedroom, but is poured into the illicit lett ...Show more