Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure, whose extraordinary life is a study in self-invention. Born into an age when w ...Show more
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015 by Roy Strong
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
The third volume of Roy Strong's diaries cover the years 2004 to 2015. In January 2004 Strong was in a state of deep grief following the death of his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, three months earlier. Yet the diaries written in this first year following Julia's death offer a picture of determination and ...Show more
A Writer's World : Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late-twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the Berlin Wall. First published 2003.
Gough and Me: My Journey from Cabramatta to China and beyond by Christine Sykes
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Gough Whitlam moves into her street in Cabramatta in 1957, eight-year-old Christine has little idea how her new neighbour, one of the most visionary and polarising political leaders of Australia, would shape the direction of her life. Born to working-class parents and living in a fibro house built ...Show more
Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flare and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapologetic attitude, it' ...Show more
Women on Top of the World by Lucy-Anne Holmes
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
'A brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power' - RUBY RARE'This is a book that really should be pressed into the hands of a generation of young men who have learnt everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask from porn ... Holmes has done an admirable job' THE SUNDAY T ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now an award-winning documentary film. 'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew Solomon, The Times What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - wit ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road - Galvin Family by Robert Kolker
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARPEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNamed a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New ...Show more
Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
'A really important book' RAYNOR WINN From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption. ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Delectable ... a ravishing family saga' Sunday Times 'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era's most notorious families with all the verve and skil ...Show more
Windsor Diaries: A Childhood with the Princesses by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
**SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****A DAILY MAIL CHRISTMAS BOOKS PICK** 'A must if you love The Crown' Good Housekeeping 'For a glimpse into the lives of the young princesses these diaries are riveting' Daily Mail, Christmas Bo ...Show more
The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more