My Lives by Edmund White
$24.95 AUD
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No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 195 ...Show more
Children of the Raj by Vyvyen Brendon
$26.95 AUD
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The shocking history of what the British in India did with their childrenVyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflic ...Show more
Waterlemon by Ruth Ritchie
$32.95 AUD
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'Waterlemon' is the true story of a sudden unwelcome interruption to an ordinary happy life. One perfect spring day, when newspaper columnist Ruth Ritchie was playing at home with her three-month-old baby, she received the call that her husband had been in a road accident, and was being airlifted to hos ...Show more
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
$19.99 AUD
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Richly evocative memoir of childhood, filled with the tastes of India, by bestselling cookery writer. 'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om", which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a ...Show more
John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
$49.95 AUD
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This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his l ...Show more
Truman Capote by George Plimpton
$23.00 AUD
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A biography of American author Truman Capote in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
$25.00 AUD
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"Tom Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia s oil reserves, and discovered a novel instead. Written on the eve of the Second World War, Ali and Nino is a captivating love story set in the glamorous city of Baku, Azerbaijan s capital. The novel s depiction of a ...Show more
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog – A Funny and Heartbreaking Worldwide Bestseller by John Grogan
$25.00 AUD
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THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT MOVED DOG LOVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING OWEN WILSON AND JENNIFER ANISTON** 'A book with intense appeal . . . tenderly follows its subject from sunrise to sunset' New York Times 'Not just a funny dog story . . . It's a universal st ...Show more
Usual Suspect - Abe Saffron Life by McNAB Duncan
$33.00 AUD
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In a vigorous public life spanning 60 years, Abe Saffron has been accused in Australian parliaments, courts, and in the media of being Mr Sin and one of the Mr Bigs of Australian crime. His version of the story is that he is one of Australia's most successful self-made men. So what is the truth about Ab ...Show more
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
$25.00 AUD
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Young, good-looking and raking in cash as a successful advertising executive, Augusten has everything going for him...except for his drinking. Dry is his hilarious and moving account of coming off the booze and attempting to live his drunken life sober. It's also a story of love, loss and Starbucks as a ...Show more
Nell Gwynn: A Biography by Charles Beauclerk
$70.00 AUD
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Beautiful, quick-witted, good humoured and sexually magnetic, Nell Gwyn remains one of England's great folk-heroines. The story of her exceptional rise from an impoverished childhood (she was the fatherless daughter of an alcoholic bawd) to the wealth and connections that came with being the lover of on ...Show more