Mary Poppins, She Wrote by Lawson Valerie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. But the story of Mary Poppins' creator, as this first biography reveals, is just as unexpected and remarkable. The fabulous English nanny was conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Trav ...Show more
Unlocking My Brain by DURHAM, CHRISTINE
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
I did not want anyone to ever feel as disorientated and bewildered as I did." - Christine Durham. Unlocking the Brain (previously published as Doing Up Buttons)brings to life Christine's personal experience of brain injury - from being unable to walk, talk, see or think clearly, to how she regained her ...Show more
Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
'If you've ever wept, "Why Do I Want To Run?" your answer is here.' Caitlin MoranAlexandra Heminsley had high hopes- the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run.Her first attempt did not end well.Six years later, she h ...Show more
Prisoner X by Rafael Epstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
The urgent phone call comes from behind the barbed wire. 'This is Ayalong prison,' says one of the guards urgently. 'Listen, he hanged himself, we need an ambulance.' Prisoner X, just 34 years old, was slumped in a small bathroom, separated from his cell by a transparent door. Kept in one of the most te ...Show more
A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea by David Vann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Work so that you can keep working. It seemed a proposition that could easily end in suicide. I wanted to escape this. I wanted to free myself from the working world and have time to write. And I wanted adventure. Grendel could never free me, but this boat could. David Vann has loved boats all his life. ...Show more
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carp ...Show more
Madness: a Memoir by Kate Richards
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize. It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you migh ...Show more
The Road to Middlemarch - My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
What would happen if I stopped to consider how Middlemarch has shaped my understanding of my own life? Why did the novel still feel so urgent, after all these years? And what could it give me now, as I paused here in the middle of things, and surveyed where I had come from, and thought about where I was ...Show more
Inside Trader by Trader Faulkner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Told with great verve and colour, this is the remarkable life story of an extraordinary Australian.As a boy, Ronald Faulkner was a troubled and rebellious surfer and tearaway, giving his mother a rough time after his father died when he was just seven years old. Although he dreamed of a career in the Ro ...Show more
Reggie by Lewis Baston
$22.00 AUD
Category: General
In the memoirs and biographies of his contemporaries, Reggie Maudling - "hired by Winston Churchill, fired by Margaret Thatcher" - is a marginal figure: a puzzling walk-on part in the Tory leadership crisis of 1963, a witty man with a clever turn of phrase, or a tragic figure who squandered his natural ...Show more
Storyteller by Zoe Daniel
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Zoe Daniel is the ABC's South-East Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok with her husband and young family. She reports on nine countries across Southeast Asia filing copy and stories for TV, radio, online and social media. She was the Africa correspondent from 2005 until 2007 and spent 2009 covering the ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life by Hermione Lee
$52.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaim ...Show more