Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
Paris for Beginners: A memoir by Rachael Coopes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Gorgeous travel memoir set in Paris from Play School presenter, award-winning screenwriter and author of Find Your Strength, Rachael Coopes. For fans of Eat Pray Love,Almost French and Emily In Paris. 'Enchanting, amusing, life-affirming and wise.' Toni Pearen Sometimes the best compass to follow is yo ...Show more
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny ...Show more
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
$60.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the ...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
Masquerade - The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden
$27.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Ph ...Show more
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together ...Show more
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal. How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an ...Show more
How to Avoid a Happy Life by Julia Lawrinson
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From domestic dysfunction to extraordinary bad luck, Julia Lawrinson reflects on her intriguing and eventful life with disarming honesty and wit. Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy choices, l ...Show more
Carson Mccullers - A Life by Mary V. Dearborn
$80.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journalsV. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to e ...Show more