Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, ...Show more
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong...I'd like her to be a little 'foreign' Iris Origo was born in 1902 and spent her youth in the ancestral estate on Long Island and in her grandfather's castle in Ireland. Her father died tragically when she was eight, and she continued her peripatetic lif ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer an ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Pick-Goslar, Hannah
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten... 'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne' When Hannah's family flee from the Nazi to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship ...Show more
My Father's Suitcase by MARY GARDEN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a ...Show more
Dear Mutzi: A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten by Tess Scholfield-Peters
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Harry Peters — formally Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. This story, of forced migration, assimilation, loss, resilience ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador Collection
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne. 'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - ...Show more