The Insider : The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The Insider dominated the UK media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prominent political and showbiz figures, it was critically acclaimed across the broadsheets for its unique and fascinating in ...Show more
A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967 by Rachel Cohen
$27.95 AUD
$32.95 (15% off)
Category: Literary
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
Love and darkness are just two of the many forces which run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving autobiographical novel. He takes us on a bold, courageous journey through his childhood and adolescence, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people- his parents. At the tragic heart o ...Show more
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
An Australian memoir published to critical acclaim worldwide, In My Skin is the true story of Kate Holden's life as sex worker and a heroin addict. Kate was a nice middle-class girl: a dreamy bookworm, a classics scholar and an innocent. In this memoir she chronicles in frank and beautifully crafted pro ...Show more
John Betjeman : The Bonus of Laughter by Bevis Hillier
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the most remarkable, most widely read and best loved poet of the twentieth century. Bevis Hillier's 'awe-inspiring' and 'enthralling' biography fascinatingly recalls Betjeman's extraordinary character. In this final volume, Betjeman is at ...Show more
Will in the World : How Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a share ...Show more
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
A take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason.
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain), descendant of the Romanov dynasty, alcoholic, and ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new wa ...Show more
The Santaland Diaries by DAVID SEDARIS
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man's companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back se ...Show more
A Life by Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst by Siobhan O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Florence Broadhurst, the one-time chanteuse of Shanghai, Bond Street salon owner, world-renowned wallpaper designer and Sydney socialite lived a life steeped in subterfuge and deception. Here for the first time we get a glimpse at the fascinating woman behind the hand-printed brocades.
Grandes Horizontales : The lives and legends of four nineteenth-century courtesans by Virginia Rounding
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A brilliant group biography in the mould of Stella Tillyard's Aristocrats and Katie Hickman's Daughters of Britannia, now published in paperback The lives and legends of four women, all representatives of the golden age of the French courtesan. In the reign of Emperor Napoleon III the opulent and pamp ...Show more