SWEET LIFE IN PARIS by David Lebovitz
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY PARIS KITCHEN Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed ...Show more
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is 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 drama is played against the extraordinary political ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a lea ...Show more
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams by Darwin Porter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
God had a talent for creating exceptional women--Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon who changed America's beliefs abo ...Show more
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Biography and Autobiography
This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthr ...Show more
Flyover Lives by Diane Johnson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
"Smart . . . perceptive . . . "Flyover Lives "is a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR From the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Le Divorce," a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us Growing up in the small riv ...Show more
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Calvin Tomkins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and su ...Show more
My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War by Anne Sinclair; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
"My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A detailed and important record of twentieth century art."-The Boston GlobeOn September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, on ...Show more
Internal Medicine - A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant to Nelson Mandela, growing to respect and cherish the man she had been taught was the enemy. Good Morning, Mr Man ...Show more
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
$36.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A spectacular act of close reading and looking by a great writer In La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso--one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology--turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later ...Show more
Music In The Castle Of Heaven: A Portrait Of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner, John Eliot Gardiner
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as ...Show more