Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
$27.95 AUD
Category: General
In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman made a voyage that took her from the familiar, loved country of her childhood to the unknown New World. Her life was irrevocably divided in two. In this personal memoir, she evokes the landscapes of postwar Poland - recently war-torn, suffering oppression, yet also the la ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Abacus Bks.
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Camerman 1934-1985 by Tim Bowden
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
One Crowded Hour is the bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest combat cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. First published in 1987, One Crowded Hour remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
$24.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and fa ...Show more
The Life of Graham Greene Volume 2 : 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Volume 2 covers the most prolific period of Graham Greene's life.
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day. And Cleopatra, who had already be ...Show more
Me of the Never Never: The (Chaotic) Life and Times of Fiona O'Loughlin by Fiona O'Loughlin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Fiona O'Loughlin is certainly the funniest (and possibly one of the busiest) working mothers in Australia today: a stand-up comedian based in Alice Springs and Adelaide, she is on the road for most of the year, doing live performances, plus regular television appearances. Fiona has also had successful s ...Show more
Wait For Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and thei ...Show more
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould & Michael Azerrad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A full-force memoir from a hero of American punk, Bob Mould, the founder of Husker Du, who set the standard for blazing guitar and soul-baring lyrics.
The Promise of Iceland by Kari Gislason
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Born from a secret liaison between a British mother and an Icelandic father, Kari Gislason was the subject of a promise - a promise elicited from his father to not reveal his identity. The Icelandic city of Reykjavik, where Kari was born, was also home to his father and his father's wife and four childr ...Show more
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "Prodigiously researched but also splendidly written-clear and vivid and precise." --The Wall Street Journal Drawing on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Fergus ...Show more