My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary
At 23, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J.D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-t ...Show more
In My Mother's Hands by Biff Ward
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
There are secrets in this family. Before Biff and her younger brother, Mark, there was baby Alison, who drowned in her bath because, it was said, her mother was distracted. Biff too, lives in fear of her mother's irrational behaviour and paranoia, and she is always on guard and fears for the safety of h ...Show more
The Independent Member for Lyne by Rob Oakeshott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From deep inside the last Parliament, Rob Oakeshott reveals the real story of being an independent during the Gillard government.
Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967-1976 by Barney Hoskyns
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.Hotel California is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth accoun ...Show more
Locked In: One Man's Miraculous Escape from the Terrifying Confines of Locked-in Syndrome by Richard Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't moving at all. Couldn't move at all.' I ...Show more
Testament of Youth - An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of ...Show more
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A startling book that will change the way you think about animals ... and autism Animals in Translation is the culmination of Temple Grandin's extraordinary life's work, drawing upon the latest research, her distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own experience of being autistic. With co-au ...Show more
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography by Pierre Brocheux
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, he negotiates the many twists and turns ...Show more
The Loss That is Forever by Maxine Harris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"The Loss That is Forever" provides a thoughtful framework for understanding the impact that early loss has on every aspect of adult development. Through extensive research, interviews with more than sixty-five men and women, and the compelling writings of such well-know figures as Virginia Woolf, C.S. ...Show more
Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by Juliet Macur
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there--talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the tr ...Show more
Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett by Victoria Schofield
$74.95 AUD
Category: Political
Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political observers. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the interwar years and was acquainted with all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hinde ...Show more
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia by David Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more