Wild Tales by Graham Nash
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible and possibly unique journey from 60s Manchester to Swinging London to sunny California. And along the way he created many of the iconic songs which defined a ...Show more
Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson by David Day
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
For many decades there has only been one published first-hand account of Mawson's expedition - the one written and orchestrated by Mawson himself. Only recently have alternative accounts become publicly available. In this compelling and revealing new book, David Day draws upon all this new evidence as w ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship and poverty. Today Stokes is one of Australi ...Show more
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family by Gabrielle Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets. As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan's childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter sets in motion a literary pilgrimage that reveals long-buried family secrets. Like her mother, Stow had gro ...Show more
Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest by Andrew Burrell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The swashbuckling West Australian entrepreneur Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest took on mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto at their own game - and won. In this unauthorised biography, Andrew Burrell traces Twiggy's business triumphs and disasters to reveal the complicated man behind the myth. Why do his mi ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. In this final volume of his diaries, ...Show more
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical
May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.' Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves befo ...Show more
Youngs The Brothers Who Built AC/DC by Jesse Fink
$34.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
With sales of over 200 million albums, AC/DC is not just the biggest rock band in the world. It's a family business built by three brothers: George, Malcolm and Angus Young. And, as with any business, some people prospered while others got hurt along the way. The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC is ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival ...Show more
Our Hearts Hang from the Lemon Trees by Laetitia Rutherford
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A hauntingly original memoir about a girl caught between two families, about losing and finding love, and about poems that can save your life. I listened to that house breathe and creak through twenty long summers, often bored, or longing to be somewhere else, always ensnared by its charm - In this cap ...Show more
Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood by Peter Bebergal
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in the suburbs of Boston and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs, and "Gilligan's Island," Peter Bebergal was barely in his teens when the ancient desire to finding higher spiritual meaning in the universe struck. Already schooled in mysticism by way of comic books, Dungeons & Dragons, ...Show more
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateurThere have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the ...Show more