A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
$37.00 AUD
Category: Literary
It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing ...Show more
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest wo ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liberat ...Show more
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story by Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?'- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024 marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy , and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Churchill himself. This book ...Show more
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion by Cory Leadbeater
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Cory Leadbeater grew up in a working-class town in New Jersey, one of three brothers, a quiet kid looking to find refuge from the rougher parts of his childhood in Dickens, Austen and Frost. Almost a decade ago when he was just starting at Columbia's MFA program, still living at home, he received an off ...Show more
My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
'witty and sweet, and perfectly captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary childhood' Andrew Miller Tiffany's work is like you look out the window and there it is - the sun dancing in the sky . . . My Family And Other Rock Stars will make you grow wings. Get out there now and buy it. The ghost of ...Show more
Wed by the Wayside by Alana Valentine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The fascinating true story of Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney a quiet revolution in Australian history, from a side street of the red-light district. Alana Valentine's mother, Janice, was married by the charismatic and controversial Methodist minister Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel in 1969. Not l ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further conversations with my psychiatrist by Baek Sehee
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reac ...Show more
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State by Caroline Burt
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England. A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England.Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil wa ...Show more
The Laws of Connection - The Transformative Science of Being Social by David Robson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Award-winning science journalist and author of The Expectation Effect David Robson explores why social connection matters even more than we thought, how to build better relationships and improve our lives
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to reco ...Show more