The Pulling by Adele Dumont
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania - compulsive hair-pulling - it makes sense of ...Show more
Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul by Wroe
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
A dazzlingly original blend of memoir, essay, biography and poetry, reflecting on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page, by the acclaimed biographer and obituarist I think of my work as catching souls. It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life. A dazzlingly ...Show more
The Family Law: New Edition by Benjamin Law
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a ...Show more
Three Times a Countess - The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is revealing and hugely entertaining. Highly recommended.' - Daily Mail 'Gaudoin tells these delicious stories with brio' - Sunday ...Show more
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrere
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams'Michael Cunningham, a ...Show more
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card ...Show more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
A story of hope, love and life in the face of cancer, and the miracle of second chances When Delia's beloved first husband Jerry died of cancer in 2015, after thirty-three years of marriage, she struggled without him. Floored by grief, it never occurred to her she would find love again. But fate had ot ...Show more
The Autists: Women on the Spectrum by Clara Tornvall
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When port ...Show more
To the One I Love the Best by Ludwig Bemelmans
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a member of the family: given a bedroom in their sumptuous house, invitations to the most outrageous parties in Hollywood, and the fri ...Show more
The Palace Papers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Tina Brown
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana … and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful rev ...Show more