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
Accidental Weatherman by Sam Mac
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Accidental Weatherman is the story of what happens when a hilarious Adelaide boy who knows nothing about meteorology scores the coveted weatherman gig on the highest rating breakfast TV show in Australia.As the Sunrise weatherman, Sam Mac has bungee jumped, swum with sharks, got his cat on the cover ...Show more
Yearbook - Seth Rogen by Seth Rogen
$20.00 AUD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: Entertainment
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks ...Show more
The Bookseller Of Kabul: The International Bestseller - 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other' SUNDAY TIMES by Asne Seierstad
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is s ...Show more
Not Always Diplomatic: An Australian Woman’s Journey through international affairs by Sue Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service. A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service.'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effe ...Show more
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this improbable place, the last English literary salon began. Q ...Show more
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A portrait of the tempestuous life of the pioneering and iconic blues singer by Scotland’s National Poet. ‘[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it … she’s the reason I started singing, really’ – Janis Joplin Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine ...Show more
Little Labours by Rivka Galchen
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.' Boston Globe One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka ...Show more
A Still Life: A Memoir by Josie George
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
<big>'A beautiful memoir, A Still Life is joy-lit- vivid, lovestruck, hopeful and wise ... I've never come across a new writer with more to offer the world' Melissa Harrison</big><big>'Full of kindness, A Still Life will make you a better person' Clare Mackintosh</big>AN EVENING ...Show more
The Letters of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn; Michael Nott (Editor); August Kleinzahler (Editor); Clive Wilmer (Editor)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Gunn's letters serve as one of the most indispensable epistolary chronicles of an era, especially in the US, of the Eisenhower fifties transforming into the revolutionary sixties and seventies, and then the revanchist, reactionary Reagan eighties and the AIDS epidemic, all seen through the lens of a ga ...Show more