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.
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
A Pacifist's War by Frances Partridge
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Category: General
At the outset of the Second World War Ralph and Frances Partridge were both convinced pacifists. These extracts from Frances war diary present an intimate and vivid picture of their life at Ham Spray in Wiltshire , which was a refuge to a wide range of friends, including many of their fellow 'Bloomsber ...Show more
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Ignatieff, Michael
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a historian of Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, s ...Show more
An Autobiography: Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
$25.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in two volumes in 1927 and 1929, with a second edition in 1940, this is Gandhi's account of his early spiritual progress towards truth and the circumstances of his life that led him to a practical application of the principles of conduct for which he was revered.
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary Lovell
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scrutiny. He followed service as an in ...Show more
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about grow ...Show more
12 Edmondstone Street by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
First published in 1985, this book combines autobiography with a sense of the ways in which the objects with which we surround ourselves, and the places in which we live, build our private maps of reality and shape our personal mythologies. By the author of "An Imaginary Life" and "Antipodes".
Boyhood: A Memoir by J.M. Coetzee
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey.
Falling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more