Chapter and Verse - New Order, Joy Divison and Me by Bernard Sumner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. Manchester produced Joy Division.' Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence. Until now...An integral part of the Manchester music sc ...Show more
The Compass of Naivety
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
TALE OF AN ERA - Naivety is beautifully symbolised by The Fool in both Tarot and Sufi traditions. While the compass has an almost magical ability to remember its direction, as its needle points gently 'the way' whenever worldly circumstances allow. 'The Compass of Naivety' is a tale of a true adventure, ...Show more
Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce by Sylvia Jukes Morris
$59.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
"I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die," Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. "Price of Fame, "the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce's progress from the early months of World War II, when, as an eye-catching Congresswom ...Show more
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: P. S. Ser.
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...Show more
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham - the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls - as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. "Not That Kind of Girl i ...Show more
Burning the Days by James Salter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
This brilliant memoir brings to life an entire era through the sensibility of one of America's finest authors. Recollecting fifty years of love, desire and friendship, Burning the Days traces the life of a singular man, who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before reinven ...Show more
Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins by Robert Baer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of c ...Show more
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
The Don: The Definitive Biography - Based on Exclusive Interviews With the Don by Roland Perry
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'In the summer of 1930 a cricketing machine, by the name of Donald Bradman, played havoc around the county grounds of England, pulverising the finest bowlers in the land, shattering records left, right and centre, and making a tour debut the like of which will surely never be seen again.' WH Ferguson, s ...Show more
The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991 by Herve Guibert
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself -- a mausoleum of lovers -- comes to take its place. The sensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in ...Show more
Edie: American Girl by JEAN STEIN
$24.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, trag ...Show more