Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
$30.00 AUD
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A New York Times bestselling author's sparkling memoir of changing genders whilst remaining a feminist. Reasons for Transitioning: Want to impress good-looking ex; Want to upset good-looking ex; Bored of existing wardrobe, looking for excuse to buy all-new clothes that don't fit in a new way; Younger s ...Show more
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
$30.00 AUD
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From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more
Dear Mr You by Mary-Louise Parker
$32.00 AUD
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The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, warmly conspiratorial seriously good ("The New York Times") literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker Funny, heartbreaking and profound ("Elle"). An extraordin ...Show more
Hollywood's Eve - Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L. A. by Lili Anolik
$29.99 AUD
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Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world--a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity Fair writer "Lili Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve's singular irresistible glit ...Show more
Every Conceivable Way: One Couple's Extraordinary Journey to Parenthood over Nine Years and Three Continents by Despina Meris
$35.00 AUD
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New Yorker Despina Meris had always imagined her future with children in it. After falling in love and moving to Australia in her early twenties and battling cancer at age thirty, she and her husband Bill finally settled down to baby-making - only to have miscarriage after miscarriage. They tried IVF, w ...Show more
Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho
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"My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story. When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jers ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
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A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Walter Gropius - Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
$33.00 AUD
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In her majestic biography of Walter Gropius, charismatic founder of the Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy argues that his visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today. Mention the Bauhaus and iconic objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer cha ...Show more
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
$25.00 AUD
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Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was to engulf Sri Lanka for decades. With her was her lifelong friend, Ajanthi, also aged 17. Leavin ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD by Bill Minutaglio & Steven L Davis
$35.00 AUD
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'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius IQ studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, th ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$33.00 AUD
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"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antici ...Show more
Beneath the Fig Leaves by Olympia Panagiotopoulos
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In 1955, in a village in Greece that was marred by war and poverty, Giannoula and Fotios Panagiotopoulos dreamed of providing a better life for their children. Australia, it was rumoured, was a land of opportunity where hard work brought reward. Leaving behind family and friends, they set off to make a ...Show more