The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
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Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more
Breaking and Mending by Joanna Cannon
$28.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Wellcome Collection
'One of the most beautiful books you will ever read' Kate Mosse'I tore through Breaking and Mending... frank, emotional and compassionate' David Nicholls 'Powerful and moving' Nina Stibbe'Deeply moving and thought-provoking' Nathan Filer'Powerful, shocking and intimate' John Boyne"A few years ago, I fou ...Show more
Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense o ...Show more
The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Saving Yasidi Women & Girls from Isis sex Slavery
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women h ...Show more
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$33.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Princess Margaret
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and ex ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
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Category: General
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
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Category: General
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
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Category: General
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." T ...Show more
Wild Wild Guru by Subhuti Anand Waight
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Category: General
This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'. His guru was always controversial with his teachings on sex and spirituality, rumours o ...Show more
Beethoven - The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe
$62.95 AUD
Category: General
A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions.Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in ca ...Show more