Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refu ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
Little Brother - An Odyssey to Europe by Ibrahima Balde; Amets Arzallus Antia; Timberlake Wertenbaker (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odysssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea, helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in the capital, Conakry. At the sudden death of his father, he becomes the head o ...Show more
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How do you start a journey when the roads are blocked? Who can you trust in a country where the Nazi regime has only just fallen? "This is the story of the liberation of four Dutch political prisoners at the end of World War II, and about their trek home to Holland..." So, modestly, begins this firstha ...Show more
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell -- renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people know that it was inspired by another supposed mirac ...Show more
Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience by Veronica Gorrie
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply com ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Wes Anderson, David Brendel
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Lieb ...Show more
Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, in ...Show more
The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.