Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLI ...Show more
Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (movie tie-in cover) by Jean-Dominique Bauby (tr from French Jeremy Leggatt)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French 'Elle' and the father of tw ...Show more
Mrs P's Journey - The remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map by Sarah Hartley
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. P ...Show more
Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpiec ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
After twenty-five years of "sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine", chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights o ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
Repeating the Leaving: An Unauthorised Memoir by Charles Waterstreet
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The hero of "Precious Bodily Fluids" is back! This time Charlie's 16, his hormones are pumping and he's desperately trying to join the burgeoning sexual revolution from the confines of a Sydney boarding school. But when tragedy strikes he leaves school, and boyhood, behind forever.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
"This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book." --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir ...Show more
The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In this account of the ascent, eventual collapse, and the resurrection of the Gucci dynasty, Sara Forden takes us behind the scenes of the second "Trial of the Century" and exposes the passions, the power, and the vulnerabilities of the greatest fashion family of our times.
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
A Pacifist's War by Frances Partridge
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
At the outset of the Second World War Ralph and Frances Partridge were both convinced pacifists. These extracts from Frances war diary present an intimate and vivid picture of their life at Ham Spray in Wiltshire , which was a refuge to a wide range of friends, including many of their fellow 'Bloomsber ...Show more
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Ignatieff, Michael
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a historian of Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, s ...Show more