Things That Helped: a Memoir of Illness and Recovery by Jessica Friedmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Through the tide of hormones surging within my body, and the little runnels of blood, and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep. In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postp ...Show more
Cardinal - The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within ...Show more
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award--winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isa ...Show more
Miller and Max: George Miller and the Making of a Film Legend by Luke Buckmaster
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Miller and Max is the story of two heroes. One, a leather jacket-clad road warrior whose adventures in a dystopian future have made an indelible imprint on global popular culture. The other, the artist who created him: a softly spoken son of Greek and Turkish migrants, whose life charters a spectacular ...Show more
Hemingway in Italy by Richard Owen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Armchair Traveller
Hannah's Dress - Berlin 1904-2014 by Pascale Hugues
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin?s modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her ordinary street during the course of the last century. We ...Show more
The Education of A Coach: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Now in paperback, legendary journalist and author David Halberstam's in-depth look at the life and career of the NFL's winningest coach, Bill Belichick, with unprecedented access to Belichick. Bill Belichick's 31 years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success-first in Cleveland, then with the Gia ...Show more
The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Jane Kirby
$17.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times 'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told' Fiona Wilson, The Times 'An important book ... I cried all the way ...Show more
Grant and I by Robert Forster
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Go-Betweens, one of Australia's most talented and influential bands, very nearly wasn't. Grant McLennan didn't want to be in a group, and couldn't even play an instrument. That didn't stop the singer-songwriter duo of Forster/McLennan becoming one of the most acclaimed partnerships in Australian mus ...Show more
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour- A Memoir of Li ...Show more
Adult Fantasy: My Search for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Supposedly Adult Milestones by Briohny Doyle
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky- the sound of a cultural clock counting me out of youth.'Briohny Doyle turned thirty without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. The world she lived in, with i ...Show more
Paul Keating: the Big-Picture Leader by Troy Bramston
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his extensive personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the ...Show more