Alan Partridge: Big Beacon by Alan Partridge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells the story of how Partridge heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from the desolate ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Jali by Oliver Twist
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Twist is a star.' The Sydney Morning HeraldComedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has turned the turmoil he and his family endured into a thrilling adventure of a hero's journey. ...Show more
Trust: A Fractured Fable by Jeanne Ryckmans
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A darkly funny memoir and investigation into the charms and crimes of the untrustworthy.Romance scams, pyramid schemes, bogus debts and fake news, the world is awash with confidence tricksters and swindlers. But what happens if the fraudster is your lover?It has been said that trust is a risk masqueradi ...Show more
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
$38.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking u ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love. And then it occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here. Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more
Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me) by Gary Janetti
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
With over 800,000 followers on social media, Gary Janetti has quickly become a viral sensation, but here in Do You Mind If I Cancel?, the man behind the most wickedly funny memes on the Internet turns his attention away from the royal family, and squarely to the realm of everyday life. He takes on the h ...Show more
How to Avoid a Happy Life by Julia Lawrinson
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From domestic dysfunction to extraordinary bad luck, Julia Lawrinson reflects on her intriguing and eventful life with disarming honesty and wit. Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy choices, l ...Show more
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more