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
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Wes Anderson, David Brendel
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Lieb ...Show more
Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, in ...Show more
The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe B ...Show more
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits by Raven Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE 'Irresistibly readable.' DOLLY ALDERTON 'You'll laugh. You'll cry.' LENA DUNHAM A hilarious, smart and incredibly singular debut from Raven Smith, whose exploration of the minutiae of everyday modern life and culture is totally unique and painf ...Show more
Working - Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Robert A. Caro, 'one of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times), is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose biographies are widely considered to be masterpieces.In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing ...Show more
The Auschwitz Photographer by Luca Crippa; Maurizio Onnis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A t ...Show more
Shanghai Acrobat by Jingjing Xue
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
For readers of Mao's Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia. Jingjing Xue was born in China in the 1950s, during one of the worst times in the reign of communist leader Mao Zedong, or Chairman Mao. Mao's extreme f ...Show more