Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Telling Tales - Likely and Unlikely Stories from a Lucky Life by Hugh Patrick O'Keefe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Want to know all about... ...the frog’s condom? ...the Iroquois hunk on the cable car? ...Mrs Whitlam’s good manners? ...the drag queen’s ‘grandson’? ...the gin and urine nightcap? ...the English Resistance fighter? ...DickCam? Search no further. This sequel to Hugh Patrick O’Keefe’s bestselling ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruc ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A memoir by Wendy McCarthy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Educator, activist, agent of change - the life and career of one of Australia's most influential women. 'McCarthy's advocacy and passion for women's rights has spurred a new generation. We wouldn't be where we are without her.' Sydney Morning Herald, 'Who Mattered in 2019' 'A woman of kindness and str ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as p ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more