The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
$15.00 AUD
Category: General
When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home- five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination- building a grass ho ...Show more
Under the Peasant's Skirt by George Perko
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1936 George Perko was ten years old and extremely happy living in cosmopolitan Budapest. Under the Peasant s Skirt follows his voyage through Budapest s cafes and cabarets, the disquieting effects of fascism and World War 2, the post war Soviet occupation of Hungary and communism, his escape to Paris ...Show more
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition by Hope Edelman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Ask any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother's death as she was by her mother's life. Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book had discussed the profound, lasting, and far-reaching effects of this loss--until "Mot ...Show more
Resurrection: A true story of Power and Forgiveness by Pat McDermott
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
An Innocent Man written by Patricia McDermott tells the tragic true story leading up to the death of her younger brother, Matthew, at just 28 years old. Matthew's dream was not uncommon. The plan was to get out of Sydney and settle down in the small country town of Temora NSW. His dream was to eventuall ...Show more
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more
A Curious Career by Lynn Barber
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social emba ...Show more
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.
Letter To My Daughter by Maya Angelou
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.Here in ...Show more
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