Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$45.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Which Lie Did I Tell by GOLDMAN WILLIAM
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of insider i ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political
George Pell, now a great power in Rome, leaves in his wake shocking revelations about his defence of the church, its power and its assets, as he came to grips with the scandal of child sex abuse by priests. This new edition of The Prince, significantly expanded and updated, draws on fresh evidence of Pe ...Show more
Shy: A Memoir by Sian Prior
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sian Prior has maintained a career in the public eye, as a broadcaster and performer, for more than twenty years. For far longer than that she has suffered from excruciating shyness. Eventually, after bolting from a party in a state of near-panic, she decides to investigate her condition. What is it - s ...Show more
Feel-Good Hit of the Year by Liam Pieper
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
What happens when a young man adopts the practices of a counterculture, without any of its ethics? Liam Pieper was raised by his bohemian parents to believe in freedom and creativity, and that there's nothing wrong with smoking a little marijuana to make life easier. Nothing if not precocious, he used t ...Show more
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
$15.00 AUD
Category: General
When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home- five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination- building a grass ho ...Show more
Under the Peasant's Skirt by George Perko
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1936 George Perko was ten years old and extremely happy living in cosmopolitan Budapest. Under the Peasant s Skirt follows his voyage through Budapest s cafes and cabarets, the disquieting effects of fascism and World War 2, the post war Soviet occupation of Hungary and communism, his escape to Paris ...Show more
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition by Hope Edelman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Ask any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother's death as she was by her mother's life. Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book had discussed the profound, lasting, and far-reaching effects of this loss--until "Mot ...Show more
Resurrection: A true story of Power and Forgiveness by Pat McDermott
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
An Innocent Man written by Patricia McDermott tells the tragic true story leading up to the death of her younger brother, Matthew, at just 28 years old. Matthew's dream was not uncommon. The plan was to get out of Sydney and settle down in the small country town of Temora NSW. His dream was to eventuall ...Show more
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more
A Curious Career by Lynn Barber
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social emba ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary
At 23, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J.D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-t ...Show more