Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an ...Show more
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of growing Up iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
$27.00 AUD
Category: Political
As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she ...Show more
My Year off : Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Picador Classic
"My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?" Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaire ...Show more
At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increa ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaime ...Show more
Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing by Daniel Tammet
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
From the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers, a delightful and eclectic exploration of language, and what it can teach us about ourselves and our lives.Why is the name 'Cleopatra' not allowed in Iceland? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? And if we are what ...Show more
Tell Me I'm Here by Anne Deveson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the compelling story of Jonathan, a charming teenager who turns into a fearful and tormented young man; it is also the heart-rending story of a mother facing the realisation that her child is going mad. First published in 1991, this book has become a classic, and is as moving and as relevant tod ...Show more
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
$0.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly s pinup, and a grandmother who was n ...Show more
Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy by Peter Stanley
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, ins ...Show more
Fasting and Feasting by Adam Federman
$50.00 AUD
Category: General
For more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in t ...Show more
Life of Brine: A Surfer's Journey by Phil Jarratt
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"In the not-so-small world of surfing, Phil Jarratt has seen it all. Luckily for us, he's a fearless, funny storyteller, with a reporter's unsentimental eye and an endearing modesty. But his memoir is, above all, a haunting self-portrait: the boy practising drop-knee cutbacks in his mother's full-length ...Show more
More Please: An Autobiography by Barry Humphries
$27.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the make-up and glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of ...Show more