I'm Talking: My life, my words, my music by Kate Ceberano
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In her own unmistakeable voice, Kate Ceberano takes us on a very personal journey from her suburban childhood, her immersion in the Melbourne club scene of the eighties and her rise to stardom at the age of seventeen when she fronted the wildly popular funk band I'm Talking, to the life of a female perf ...Show more
The Unexpected Professor: an Oxford Life by John Carey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship ...Show more
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himse ...Show more
Small Bamboo by Tracy Vo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1978, following a dramatic escape from war torn Vietnam, Tracy Vo's parents boarded a leaky boat not knowing what their future held or whether they would live. The couple had fled Vietnam under the cover of darkness, exchanged wedding rings en route to Malaysia, then sold them and their scant possess ...Show more
Savage Grace - The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family by Natalie Robins; Steven M.L. Aronson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, "Savage Grace" is the saga of Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune; his beautiful wife, Barbara; and their handsome, gentle son, Tony, who destroyed the whole family in a violent chain of events. "Savage Grace" unfolds ag ...Show more
Boy in the Book by Nathan Penlington
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
As a boy, Nathan Penlington had loved Choose Your Own Adventures, the literary phenomenon of the 1980s which thrust the reader into the role of main character and compelled them to make decisions and direct the flow of the story. So, when he discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on e ...Show more
It's Not Raining Daddy It's Happy by Benjamin Brooks-Dutton
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Surviving grief, a father and son start again. The moving and inspiring story of heartbreak and courage. Ben Brooks-Dutton's wife - the great love of his life - was knocked down and killed by a car as he walked beside her, pushing their two-year-old son in his buggy. Life changed forever. Suddenly Ben ...Show more
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel by Jason Padgett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Jason Padgett was an ordinary, not terribly bright, 41-year-old working in his father's furniture shop when he was the victim of a brutal mugging outside a karaoke bar in 2002. That same night his stepfather died of cancer, and two weeks later his only brother went missing (his body was discovered three ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Canons
Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H.Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by ...everything! Welcome to the world of Dyer! Gripped by indecision at every turn, he agonises over where to settle down to write, whether or not he sho ...Show more
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by Professor of History David Nasaw (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
A "brilliant, compelling" ("The New York Times Book Review") biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, selected by the "New York Times "as one of the Ten Best Books of the Yearand a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph ...Show more
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetica ...Show more
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
$28.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperback Benjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated Engl ...Show more