Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of Australia?s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton.Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia?s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition le ...Show more
Alan Turing - The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The official book behind the film, The Imitation Game, this is a dramatic portrayal of the life and work of Alan Turing, one of Britain's most extraordinary unsung heroes, and one of the world's greatest innovators.This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nai ...Show more
Men on the Menu 75 Delicious Affairs Around the World by Bambi Smyth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Bambi Smyth didn't want to face the rest of her life being stuck in suburbia as a single, childless, and bored has-been. So she sets off on a journey across the globe to combine her three greatest passions -- food, travel and men, hoping to widen her horizons -- and maybe her heart -- along the way.
Based on a True Story by Elizabeth Renzetti
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I threw in a coin and I closed my eyes and I thought, I hope I've got enough Valium to see me through the week. One of the other mums chucked her coin in, and turned to me. She said, 'Do you think there will ever come a day when we'll make a wish that's about ourselves, and not about our kids?'" A cele ...Show more
I'll Drink to That - New York's Legendary Personal Shopper and Her Life in Style - With a Twist by Betty Halbreich
$37.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Betty Halbreich is a true original. Now in her eighties, she has spent nearly forty years at the luxury store Bergdorf Goodman, working with socialites, stars and ordinary women. She has led many to appreciate their real selves through clothes, frank advice and her unique brand of wisdom; she is trusted ...Show more
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown by Sir Roger Moore, KBE.
$39.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of the show business scene. Of course, he's an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he's also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur - in fact, he's well known as one of the nic ...Show more
Something Quite Peculiar by Steve Kilbey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Come inside the world of Steve Kilbey singer songwriter and bassist of one of Australia's best loved bands, The Church. From his migrant ten pound pom childhood through his adolescence growing up during the advent of The Beatles, Dylan and The Stones to his early adventures in garage bands and neighbour ...Show more
Born Free: The Full Story by Joy Adamson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old ...Show more
Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Diana Cooper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
As read on BBC Radio 4. Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married rising political star Duff Cooper, they became the golden couple who knew everyone who was anyone; they sat at the very heart of British public life. Diana's letters to he ...Show more
Who Knows Tomorrow by Lisa Lovatt-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From a glittering life running Vogue to a mud hut in Ghana, a fashion icon now offers hope to thousands of lost children. After an essay contest at 18 landed her a plum internship at Anna Wintour's British Vogue, within a year Lisa Lovatt-Smith became the youngest photo editor in the history of Conde Na ...Show more
What Days are for by Robert Dessaix
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
Mistress by Matthew Benns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Between the sheets with Australia's powerful, rich and famous Since the First Fleet landed, Australian history has been littered with mistresses. Slide between the covers of this book to find a cheaters' list of those women and a star-studded hall of infamy of Australia's rich and powerful men, catching ...Show more