The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Saving Yasidi Women & Girls from Isis sex Slavery
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women h ...Show more
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$33.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Princess Margaret
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and ex ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." T ...Show more
Wild Wild Guru by Subhuti Anand Waight
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'. His guru was always controversial with his teachings on sex and spirituality, rumours o ...Show more
Beethoven - The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe
$62.95 AUD
Category: General
A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions.Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in ca ...Show more
Condé Nast - The Man and His Empire -- a Biography by Susan Ronald
$53.00 AUD
Category: General
The first biography in over thirty years of Conde Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Conde Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with jus ...Show more
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain by Sarah Vallance
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
The searing, wry memoir about a woman's fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury. When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she's walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she's led from work to the emergency ...Show more
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
'A Catch Me If You Can for the internet age... What Anna did was make Instagram flesh.' Guardian 'Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: it was so easy.' New York Magazine ...Show more
Equal: A Story of Women, Men & Money by Carrie Gracie
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforc ...Show more