The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando by William J. Mann
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the tw ...Show more
Irving Berlin - New York Genius by James Kaplan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called--by George Gershwin, among others--the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music," legendary com ...Show more
Margaret Preston in Berowra by Rhonda Davis
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The first study of Margaret Preston's life in Berowra, north of Sydney, from 1932 to 1942, fully illustrated with her woodcuts, paintings and monotypes showing that area of the Hawkesbury River. Written by the curator of the Macquarie University Art Gallery and long-time Berowra resident, this books sho ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million (and $64 million in tax relief). As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Dylan behind the Shades (199 ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
$30.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg served on the Supreme Court of the United States as associate justice from 1993 until her death in 2020. Before that, she served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from her appointment in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter until her appointment to the Supre ...Show more
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refu ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
Little Brother - An Odyssey to Europe by Ibrahima Balde; Amets Arzallus Antia; Timberlake Wertenbaker (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odysssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea, helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in the capital, Conakry. At the sudden death of his father, he becomes the head o ...Show more
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How do you start a journey when the roads are blocked? Who can you trust in a country where the Nazi regime has only just fallen? "This is the story of the liberation of four Dutch political prisoners at the end of World War II, and about their trek home to Holland..." So, modestly, begins this firstha ...Show more
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell -- renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people know that it was inspired by another supposed mirac ...Show more
Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience by Veronica Gorrie
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply com ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more