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Beautiful Shadow: A life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women
Patricia Highsmith - author of "Strangers On A Train" and "The Talented Mr Ripley" - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, H ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
$27.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Classics
The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their sm ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times 'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New Yorker Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be ...Show more
Beautiful Thing : Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer by Sonia Faleiro
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find- downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty. Instead she meets Leela- nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay's bars since she wa ...Show more
Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a ...Show more
Beautiful Tractors: Portraits Of Iconic Models by Mannen Rick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Beautiful Tractors presents a fabulous variety box of the world's most magnificent agricultural machines, each primed, polished, and gleaming in all its robust glory. Stylishly lit against a studio backdrop, these superb photographs of vintage and modern masterpieces make for an impressive line-up of en ...Show more
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing by Rebecca Fogg
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
Part memoir, part medical investigation, this is a compelling account of surviving a freak accident, and a fascinating exploration of the science of trauma and recovery
Beautiful Trees: Close-Ups of Amazing Tree Bark from Around the World by Cedric Pollet
$59.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
After the success of his first book Bark, Cedric Pollet is back with an even richer collection of images. Bark 2: An Open Air Art Gallery focusses completely on bark's extraordinary visual impact : each of the 450 photos - all previously unpublished - is a work of art. Here is an incredible gallery of ...Show more
Beautiful Ugly: The Architectural Photography of John Gollings by Joe Rollo
$120.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
For more than 40 years John Gollings has been the photographer of choice _ the go-to guy for scores of architects. A Gollings photograph reveals a great deal about the aspirations, aims and beliefs, and the zeitgeist of a building and its architect's intentions. This is based on and expressed through Go ...Show more
Beautiful Waste by David Mccomb
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
McComb was lead singer of the Triffids, and a brilliant songwriter. Always more than a pop musician, he was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial and the metaphysical. Now collected and published for the first time, this is the poetry he wrote in his 20s &a ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are stil ...Show more