Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. Darrow left a promising career as a rai ...Show more
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility: Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell
$59.95 AUD
Category: Political
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People: Volume 2 by Alastair Campbell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political
Farangi Girl: A Memoir of My Mother, Parties with Princes and Growing Up in Iran by Ashley Dartnell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners ...Show more
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A sparkling second book from the bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake in which Crosley leaves her familiar stomping ground of Manhattan to travel The World: elegant writing, mordant wit and genuine insight.
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay
$16.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats. In "Young Romantics", Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
The Rain Tree by Mirabel Osler
$35.95 AUD
Category: General
A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, Phyllis's lifelong friend and fellow student under Ezra Pound, their introduction to the L ...Show more
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace by Rye Barcott
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Fl ...Show more
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
In 1987, 17-year-old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers--this is her story of her time as a guerrillaHow could it be that a well-educated, middle-class, Catholi ...Show more
Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life by Eileen Harrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years in a mission to discovery of her talent as a painter "It's bad luck to catch a black swan." Eileen Harrison grew up at in an Aboriginal mission station in the 1950s as one of 11 children in a tight-knit, loving family. ...Show more