The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Richard Coles
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles's life and work. But when his partner the Reverend David Coles died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by ...Show more
The Broken House - Growing up under Hitler by Horst Krüger
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kru ger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted ...Show more
Many Different Kinds of Love - A Story of Life, Death and the NHS by Michael Rosen
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
A national treasure's journey to the brink and back. 'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50-50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed ...Show more
Varying Degrees of Success - A Memoir 1992-2010 by David Lodge
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to desc ...Show more
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid con ...Show more
A Paper Inheritance by Dymphna Stella Rees
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends Dymphna Cusack and Stella Miles Franklin - finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery.Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a power couple of the Australian literary scene in the mid-twentieth c ...Show more
The Ghost in the Garden: In Search of Darwin's Lost Garden by Jude Piesse
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It was here, under the tutelage of his green-finge ...Show more
King Richard - Nixon and Watergate: An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account -- told from inside the White House -- of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-elec ...Show more
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else: Why Some of Us Push Our Bodies to the Extreme by Jenny Valentish
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It's human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this comes to define you?When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed the people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writi ...Show more
The Gift by Barbara Browning
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Emily Bks.
A "winning and expansive novel" that "describes one woman's intimacies with lovers, strangers, culture and ideas, and family and friends" (Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick). In the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a writer and academic from New York named Barbara Andersen begins spamming p ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A Harte
$38.00 AUD
Category: Political
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with the New Zealand Prime Minister herself. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017, with a wave of popular adulation dubbed ‘Jacindaman ...Show more