An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
An awkward, curious girl growing up in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava finds solace and security in strange yet beautiful objects. When her father's mysterious job transports her and her family to the quaint Parisian suburb of Le Vesinet, everything changes for the young American. Stephanie sets out ...Show more
Beneath the Neon: Life & Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas by Matthew O'Brien
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The catacombs of ancient Rome served as houses of worship for Jews and Christians. The sewers of Paris yielded gold, jewels, and relics of the revolution. A slave trade thrived in underground chambers along Portland, Oregon's waterfront. Ukrainian Jews found refuge from the Nazis in a system of caves. A ...Show more
First and Lasting Impressions: Julius Rudel Looks Back on a Life in Music by Julius Rudel
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eastman Studies in Music
As a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy, Julius Rudel escaped from Austria after the Nazi invasion and moved to New York, where he began his career as an unpaid musical assistant and worked his way up through the ranks of the newly formed New York City Opera, being named in 1957 as the company's general dire ...Show more
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-Harris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary M ...Show more
David Beckham by Beckham, David
$50.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
David Beckham is the world's most famous football icon. In May this year he brought down the curtain on a hugely successful playing career that spanned two decades, during which he proudly wore the shirts of Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, and England. He captai ...Show more
Rose Kennedy's Family Album: from the Fitzgerald Kennedy Private Collection, 1878-1946 by Caroline Kennedy
$70.00 AUD
Category: Political
A selection of more than 400 photos collected by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, most never seen before, featuring the beloved and revered Kennedy family: This remarkable history dates from 1878 through 1946 - up to the aftermath of WWII and the beginning of JFK's political career - and covers everything from ...Show more
The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle - the Man Who Made the Kokoda Trail by Robyn Kienzle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
If one person 'made' the Kokoda Track - that man was Bert Kienzle. Part Samoan and German/English, born in Fiji and raised in Germany and Australia, he was managing a rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua New Guinea at the outbreak of World War II. He surveyed and established the Track, and spent mor ...Show more
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know : The autobiography by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explo ...Show more
Warrior Princess: My Journey to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior by Mindy Budgor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
One woman's extraordinary quest to change history and law to become the first female Maasai Warrior
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
The Icing On The Cake by Annabel Morley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
With her grandmother the society beauty Dame Gladys Cooper, and her father the renowned actor Robert Morley CBE, Annabel Morley was always going to lead an extraordinary life.
The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and the Curse of Byron by Andrew Stott
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspira ...Show more