Madness: a Memoir by Kate Richards
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize. It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you migh ...Show more
The Road to Middlemarch - My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
What would happen if I stopped to consider how Middlemarch has shaped my understanding of my own life? Why did the novel still feel so urgent, after all these years? And what could it give me now, as I paused here in the middle of things, and surveyed where I had come from, and thought about where I was ...Show more
Inside Trader by Trader Faulkner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Told with great verve and colour, this is the remarkable life story of an extraordinary Australian.As a boy, Ronald Faulkner was a troubled and rebellious surfer and tearaway, giving his mother a rough time after his father died when he was just seven years old. Although he dreamed of a career in the Ro ...Show more
Reggie by Lewis Baston
$22.00 AUD
Category: General
In the memoirs and biographies of his contemporaries, Reggie Maudling - "hired by Winston Churchill, fired by Margaret Thatcher" - is a marginal figure: a puzzling walk-on part in the Tory leadership crisis of 1963, a witty man with a clever turn of phrase, or a tragic figure who squandered his natural ...Show more
Storyteller by Zoe Daniel
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Zoe Daniel is the ABC's South-East Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok with her husband and young family. She reports on nine countries across Southeast Asia filing copy and stories for TV, radio, online and social media. She was the Africa correspondent from 2005 until 2007 and spent 2009 covering the ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life by Hermione Lee
$52.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaim ...Show more
Fosse by Sam Wasson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce's moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed ...Show more
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M Brodie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred ...Show more
Stay : The Last Dog in Antarctica by Jesse Blackadder
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Left alone on the streets of Hobart to collect money for the Royal Guide Dogs of Tasmania, a Labrador called Girl tries to make the best of it. Her dreams of adventure can never come true though, as she is, after all, made of fibreglass. But then one night some rowdy Antarctic expeditioners walk past he ...Show more
A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive by Nelson Mandela Foundation
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political
This magnificent book, published in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, reveals for the first time the intimate details of Nelson Mandela's life in prison. Between the covers of this handsome, full-colour publication you will catch glimpses of Mandela's notebooks, his diaries and personal co ...Show more
A Place of My Own - The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
$24.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Michael Pollan's unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences--whether eating, gardening, or building--and the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining bestsellers "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and ...Show more