Man Without a Face by Markus Wolf
$37.95 AUD
Category: General
The riveting autobiography of one of the most intriguing Cold Warriors, containing extraordinary revelations about the inner world and workings of international espionage. . For decades, Markus Wolf was known to Western intelligence officers only as the man without a face. Now the legendary spymaster ha ...Show more
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Film Tie-in S.
In this unforgettable, and by turns hilarious and harrowing memoir, Augusten Burroughs recounts the bizarre events of his childhood. After his parents' divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left him in the care of her psychiatrist, a man who might have benefited from a little therapy himself.Suddenly, ...Show more
The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, his ...Show more
Romanian by BENDERSON Bruce
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
A stunning and poetic memoir of love on the fringes of society and the new Europe.
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Simple Gifts: A Life in the Theatre by George Ogilvie
$24.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
This is a autobiography of a boy from provincial Australia so determined to be an actor he endured ridicule, loneliness and starvation to achieve it. It begins with his joining Englands last melodrama company and ends with a standing ovation at the Sydney Opera House. On the way he also takes a spiritua ...Show more
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn n ...Show more
Akenfield : Portrait of an English village by Ronald Blythe
$24.95 AUD
$26.99 (7% off)
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Akenfield Ronald Blythe - Author ?9.99 Buy now View basket This book is currently out of stock Please email me when this book is available to buy Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 288 pages | ISBN 0141187921 | 28 Jul 2005 | Penguin Classic This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life rever ...Show more
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
$26.95 AUD
Category: General
This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream - Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and ...Show more
Paula by Isabel Allende
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families - a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story. Thi ...Show more
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
The trilogy that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just ...Show more
Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Beau Brummell's life is a riveting story of unparalleled fame, fashion and admiration followed by a descent into poverty and madness. The man who put Saville Row on the map, who could win friends, political arguments or the favours of women with apparent effortlessness, and who was responsible for some ...Show more