Wait For Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and thei ...Show more
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould & Michael Azerrad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A full-force memoir from a hero of American punk, Bob Mould, the founder of Husker Du, who set the standard for blazing guitar and soul-baring lyrics.
The Promise of Iceland by Kari Gislason
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Born from a secret liaison between a British mother and an Icelandic father, Kari Gislason was the subject of a promise - a promise elicited from his father to not reveal his identity. The Icelandic city of Reykjavik, where Kari was born, was also home to his father and his father's wife and four childr ...Show more
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "Prodigiously researched but also splendidly written-clear and vivid and precise." --The Wall Street Journal Drawing on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Fergus ...Show more
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. Darrow left a promising career as a rai ...Show more
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility: Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell
$59.95 AUD
Category: Political
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People: Volume 2 by Alastair Campbell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political
Farangi Girl: A Memoir of My Mother, Parties with Princes and Growing Up in Iran by Ashley Dartnell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners ...Show more
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A sparkling second book from the bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake in which Crosley leaves her familiar stomping ground of Manhattan to travel The World: elegant writing, mordant wit and genuine insight.
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay
$16.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats. In "Young Romantics", Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more