Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
$14.95 AUD
Category: General
The well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great cover by Quentin Blake as well as illustrations throughout. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
$19.95 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$27.00 AUD
Category: General
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLI ...Show more
Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (movie tie-in cover) by Jean-Dominique Bauby (tr from French Jeremy Leggatt)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French 'Elle' and the father of tw ...Show more
Mrs P's Journey - The remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map by Sarah Hartley
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. P ...Show more
Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpiec ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
After twenty-five years of "sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine", chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights o ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
Repeating the Leaving: An Unauthorised Memoir by Charles Waterstreet
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The hero of "Precious Bodily Fluids" is back! This time Charlie's 16, his hormones are pumping and he's desperately trying to join the burgeoning sexual revolution from the confines of a Sydney boarding school. But when tragedy strikes he leaves school, and boyhood, behind forever.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
"This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book." --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir ...Show more
The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In this account of the ascent, eventual collapse, and the resurrection of the Gucci dynasty, Sara Forden takes us behind the scenes of the second "Trial of the Century" and exposes the passions, the power, and the vulnerabilities of the greatest fashion family of our times.