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Walking Free: The Extraordinary True Story by Munjed Al Muderis; Patrick Weaver (As told to)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theater and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
To The End Of The World - Travels with Oscar Wilde by Rupert Everett
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett. They say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show business you may have been dead five years before you finally twig ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe B ...Show more
My Year of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. 'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our liv ...Show more
Old Seems to Be Other People by Lily Brett
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gentl ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
Churchill and Son by Josh Ireland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Fascinating... well-researched and well-written."--Andrew Roberts "Beautifully written... A triumph." - Damien Lewis "Fascinating, acute and touching."--Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know ...Show more
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselve ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more