The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...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
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$43.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
My Life as a Jew by Michael Gawenda
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial - and growing - part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Born in a displaced persons' camp two years afte ...Show more
Trust: A Fractured Fable by Jeanne Ryckmans
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A darkly funny memoir and investigation into the charms and crimes of the untrustworthy.Romance scams, pyramid schemes, bogus debts and fake news, the world is awash with confidence tricksters and swindlers. But what happens if the fraudster is your lover?It has been said that trust is a risk masqueradi ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon The Diaries Vol 1 by Channon, Chips
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$37.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars by Abbas El-Zein
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound - either tragic or amusing, sometimes both - between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, wit ...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
Madonna: A Rebel Life - THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ANY MADONNA FAN by Mary Gabriel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'Madonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence' DAILY TELEGRAPH In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise ...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