Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara's universe is Shopsin's, her fa ...Show more
Berlin Diaries: 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchkov
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The secret diaries of a 23 year old White Russian Princess who worked at the German Foreign Office from 1940 to the end of the war.
Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s life with poetry by Toby Davidson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed poetry so much that he held to a Sunday night poetr ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
The Me in the Mirror by Connie Panzarino
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Writer, activist and artist Connie Panzarino was born in 1947 with the rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type III, formerly called Amytonia Congenita. Throughout a childhood filled with both pain and joy, she strove to define herself: "I knew I was different. Now I had a name for the difference, like ...Show more
Mike Nichols - A Life by Mark Harris
$70.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as ...Show more
Montaigne - A Life by Philippe Desan; Steven Rendall (Translator); Lisa Neal (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from hi ...Show more
Most Dangerous Man In The World: The Inside Story On Julian Assange And WikiLeaks by Andrew Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"The Most Dangerous Man in the World is the definitive account of WikiLeaks, threats against its existence and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets. Through interviews with Julian Assange, his inner circle and those who fell out with him, Andrew Fowler tells the story of how a man ...Show more
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including never-before-seen private papers, Harvard historian and New Yorkerstaff writer Jill Lepore reveals the fascinating fami ...Show more
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
$26.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of twelve very different patients-from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax priso ...Show more
David Hockney - A Life by Catherine Cusset; Teresa Fagan (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I could recognise myself." --David HockneyWith clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter.Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After ...Show more