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
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology by Frances Larson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The extraordinary true story of five women who met in Oxford at the dawn of the 20th century, and set out to explore the furthest reaches of the known world In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma in Anthropology. Though their cir ...Show more
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the ...Show more
The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more
Beyond Alice by Tanya Heaslip
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the happiness and freedom of her bush childhood, Tanya Heaslip is sent to a boarding school sixteen hundred kilometres away from everything and everyone she loves. As these years pass surrounded by the friends she makes, Tanya's memoir is a humorous and inspiring story of strength, resilience and t ...Show more
Semi-gloss: Magazines, motherhood and misadventures in having it all by Justine Cullen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is not a self-help book, a memoir, or the Australian Devil Wears Prada. In her collection of autobiographical essays, Justine Cullen takes us on a journey of motherhood, (mis) adventures and mayhem in a hilariously candid exploration of her life's achievements and all the mistakes she made to get t ...Show more
Fury by Kathryn Heyman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero. A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn't see heroism in the shape of a girl. At the age of twenty, after a t ...Show more
A Doctor in Africa by Andrew Browning
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time. From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas - a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth - for near ...Show more