The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Once considered a respectable rare-map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley made millions and was highly esteemed for his knowledge; until he was arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. Though pieces of the story have been told before, Blanding is the first reporter to gain access to ...Show more
Bemelman's - the Life and Art of Madeline's Creator by Ludwig Bemelmans
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
This elegantly designed and lavishly illustrated book showcases Bemelmans' art and writing and illuminates the relationship between the man and his work. Bemelmans' fascinating life story is told through letters, photographs, illustrations, paintings, sketches, and excerpts from both his published writi ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Margaret Thatcher Biography Ser.
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. Volume One of Moore's authorized biography gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and re ...Show more
The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life by Rupert Isaacson
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year almost to the day since Rowan's improvement he started regressing: the accidents and tantrum ...Show more
Agent Storm : My Life Inside Al-Qaeda by Morten Storm
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent for the CIA, MI6 and MI5. Filled with hair-raising close calls ...Show more
Riding a Crocodile: A Physician's Tale by Paul Komesaroff
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Riding a Crocodile is a novel that gives you an insider's account into life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story that explores issues of life and death with contemporary relevance. Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. ...Show more
My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family by Wibke Bruhns
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century. On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in the Ju ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$20.00 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Historical
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, no ...Show more
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all ...Show more
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he al ...Show more
Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant: True Tales and Gossip from the Galley by Owen Beddall
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley! Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead - flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-s ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.