Internal Medicine - A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant to Nelson Mandela, growing to respect and cherish the man she had been taught was the enemy. Good Morning, Mr Man ...Show more
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
$36.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writer In La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso--one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology--turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later ...Show more
Music In The Castle Of Heaven: A Portrait Of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner, John Eliot Gardiner
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as ...Show more
Diary of A Mad Diva by Joan Rivers
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
You know what she says out loud. Can you imagine what she writes in her diary? Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making smash hit I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me (Berkley, 2012), the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, a ...Show more
Running Away from Home : Finding a New Life in Paris, London and Beyond by Jane De Teliga
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Jane de Teliga had it all - a glamorous and fulfilling career as style director for Australia's best-loved magazine, a happy family life and a beautiful home in Sydney's stunning eastern suburbs. But when empty nest syndrome struck, she suddenly found herself wondering what it all meant. Who was she whe ...Show more
Island Summers: Memories of a Norwegian Childhood by Tilly Culme-Seymour
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'My grandmother bought the island. The year was 1947 and she was thirty-three, a couple of years older than I am now. She was the visionary sort of person who can make something magical out of very little.' From the moment that Tilly's grandmother, Mor-mor, set eyes on the rocky outline of Sm h lmene, i ...Show more
Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran by Jennifer Klinec
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior, someone who didn't come to him pur ...Show more
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
This is a heartfelt celebration of the vanished world of his grandfather's intellectual passions. This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively or ...Show more
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988 by Michael Palin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which ...Show more
The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 by Michael Palin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner ...Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, ...Show more
Flyover Lives: A Memoir by Diane Johnson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
"[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid." --"The New York Times Book Review" Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world--and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung whe ...Show more