Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours by Sarah Sentilles
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Sarah Sentilles, the ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed author of Draw Your Weapons, returns in 2021 with Stranger Care, a powerful and extraordinary memoir about her experiences adopting a child in America. Sarah and her husband make the decision to adopt, and after several years and an involved proc ...Show more
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power by Rod Barton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and into the depths of war and politics. I was no James Bond with a licence to kill, but I worked with the British intelligence services and with, and for, the CIA. I had guns pointed ...Show more
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more, Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet’. ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
A Marvelous Life - The Amazing Story of Stan Lee by Danny Fingeroth
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
The definitive biography of the beloved--often controversial--co-creator of many legendary superheroes,A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe."[F ...Show more
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart by JUDITH LUCY
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Judith Lucy was just Great!Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket – but she was about to move in with the love of her life! Everything would wor ...Show more
The Performer's Tale - The Nine Lives of Patience Collier by Vanessa Morton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Though Patience Collier's name has faded from public consciousness since her death in 1987, it still conjures cool memories of iconic television and film from the 1970s and 1980s - Sapphire and Steel, Who Pays the Ferryman, Fiddler on the Roofand The French Lieutenant's Woman. Fearsome, eccentric and un ...Show more
House of Glass - The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century ... I don't hesitate to call it a masterpiece' Telegraph After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father ...Show more
Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara's universe is Shopsin's, her fa ...Show more