Blood and Circuses by Lex Marinos
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In his early years on TV he was the 'wog' who was always being told to 'Leave the money on the fridge' by Ted Bullpitt in Kingswood Country. And ultimately he became the majestic patriarch, Manolis, in The Slap. Blood and Circuses is the wry and charming story of a young Greek Australian boy, who dreamt ...Show more
Tony Windsor by Ruth Rae
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A revealing, in-depth look at the life of Tony Windsor, one of the most a widely admired, straight-talking and honourable men in Australian politics.
Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir by Lotta Dann
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Lotta Dann was in trouble - her fun drinking habit had slowly morphed into an obsessive hunger for wine. One bottle a night was never quite enough. When she tried to cut down, she found it nearly impossible to have an alcohol-free day. Everyone around could see her drinking, but no one realised what a s ...Show more
Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter by Louise Mortimer
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
'Dearest Lumpy, I hope you are plump and well. Your mother bashed her car yesterday and chooses to believe it was not her fault...' Roger Mortimer's witty dressing-downs and affectionate advice were not only directed at his wayward son, Lupin. Though better behaved than her mischievous older brother, Lo ...Show more
The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat and a small hoard of books. The manager said no. ...Show more
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor by Eva Slonim
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'These events, the persecution of my people, have simply become part of the collection of facts that people now call 'history'. I lived these facts every day. They are part of my memory. 'History' tells us that the Jews of Bratislava were persecuted by the invading Nazis. What it doesn't tell us is how ...Show more
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
Let's Just Say it Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
"I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right." From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, ...Show more
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. His intention - to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals. It w ...Show more
Hard Choices: Hillary Rodham Clinton by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this perso ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$45.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Which Lie Did I Tell by GOLDMAN WILLIAM
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of insider i ...Show more