Effie Gray: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an unconsummated union. She would fall in love with her husband's protege, John Everett Millais, and inspire some of his most memorable art, but controversy and trage ...Show more
Napoleon: v. 1: Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers
$59.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Fondation Napoleon in Paris to replace the sanitized compilation made under the Second French Empire as a propaganda exercise by his nephew, Napoleon III. All previous lives ...Show more
Tove Jansson Life Art Words The Authorised Biography by Boel Westin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a pain ...Show more
The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
$52.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted b ...Show more
The Literary Churchill : Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose
$49.95 AUD
Category: Historical
This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theatre on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and ...Show more
Call Me Sasha by Geena Leigh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
At just fifteen years old, Geena had no choice but to leave home. Without an education or any real options, she found herself being lured into the sex industry by the promise of big money and the validation of strangers, she turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of day to day life as a call girl ...Show more
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo
$42.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the European Book Prize "The East isn't far away at all. It clings to me, it goes with me everywhere. It's like a big family that you can't shake off ..." "Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland "A wry and unheroic witness...an unofficial history of a country ...Show more
Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics by Steven J. Ross
$26.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells an important story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to ...Show more
Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Solomon Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after long days of manual and farm labor, he spent reading books and playing the violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born a ...Show more
Deep Field - Behind the Frontlines of Aid Relief: from Pakistan to Kazan, the Punjab to the Pacific by Tom Bamforth
$26.95 AUD
Category: General
'Deep Field' is a UN term for humanitarian operations that take place in extremis - amid the destruction caused by war and natural disaster, beyond the boundaries of what is controllable and known. This book takes the reader 'deep field' in the footsteps of Tom Bamforth, an aid worker responding to the ...Show more
Sane New World: Taming the Mind by Ruby Wax
$20.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The mental health and mindfulness bestseller from A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled and How to be Human author Ruby Wax, who shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking to calm ourselves in a frenetic world. 'Finally - a map for the troubled human mind. And it's ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was em ...Show more