My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family by Wibke Bruhns
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century. On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in the Ju ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$20.00 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Historical
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, no ...Show more
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all ...Show more
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he al ...Show more
Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant: True Tales and Gossip from the Galley by Owen Beddall
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley! Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead - flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-s ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
Piano Shop On The Left Bank by CARHART Thad
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign--Desforges Pianos--he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop's imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands th ...Show more
#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it'*Winner of the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Business Book*The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dum ...Show more
The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder by Thornton Wilder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist--rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of famous friends and beloved relatives. Through Wilder's corresponde ...Show more
To Begin To Know - Walking in the shadows of my father by David Leser
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
More than a decade ago, journalist David Leser started writing a biography of his famous father, legendary magazine publisher, Bernard Leser. But David couldn't finish the project because he didn't want to employ his investigative and forensic feature writer's skills to unmask his father - to do so seem ...Show more
Blood and Circuses by Lex Marinos
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In his early years on TV he was the 'wog' who was always being told to 'Leave the money on the fridge' by Ted Bullpitt in Kingswood Country. And ultimately he became the majestic patriarch, Manolis, in The Slap. Blood and Circuses is the wry and charming story of a young Greek Australian boy, who dreamt ...Show more
Tony Windsor by Ruth Rae
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A revealing, in-depth look at the life of Tony Windsor, one of the most a widely admired, straight-talking and honourable men in Australian politics.