Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (CD) by David Sedaris
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Sedaris is unique in American writing, and these readings of his own work are highly skilled performances. This new collection will be ea ...Show more
Pastures of the Blue Crane by Hesba Fay Brinsmead
$22.00 AUD
$26.95 (18% off)
Category: General
Those who know Bernard Smith, scholar and interpreter of the visual arts, will rightly expect his autobiography to be unconventional. No one can help fail to find it extraordinarily moving.This is the story of an illegitimate son and of the mother who decided to keep rather than destroy him. It is the s ...Show more
Junkie Pilgrim by Wayne Grogan
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for the Best First Book of Crime Writing. 'Junkie Pilgrim' is a raw tale of addiction and murder in Sydney's dockyards. "To call this fiction does it disservice. It has hard earned truth stamped all over it. Rather than prose, I saw this book as a poem to self-destruct ...Show more
Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself want ...Show more
Rich Kids by Paul Barry
$21.95 AUD
Category: General
Now in paperback, the inside story of how Murdochs and Packers lost $950 million in One.Tel, revised and updated with new material.Young, hip and smart, like the rich kids who backed it, One.Tel grew faster than any company in Australian history - then vanished in a puff of smoke. At the height of the h ...Show more
Glimpses of the Wonderful : The Life of Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite
$65.00 AUD
$75.00 (13% off)
Category: General
This is a vivid reassessment of the life of Philip Henry Gosse, the renowned Victorian naturalist, author, illustrator and Christian fundamentalist, who as both friend and antagonist of Charles Darwin, was at the very heart of the Victorian conflict between science and religion. The author of 40 books, ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun - My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In this study, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen as both a whole and as a location, defying generalized explanations, and avoiding the official routes, palaces and big politics. First publi ...Show more
Stet - An editor's life by Diana Athill
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. With inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including reflections on editing writers such as Jean Rhys and Gitta Sereny.
The House by the Dvina by Eugenie Fraser
$30.95 AUD
Category: General
A unique and moving account of life in Russia before, during and immediately after the Revolution, The House by the Dvina is the fascinating story of two families, separated in culture and geography, but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any ...Show more
Storms of Silence by Joe Simpson
$19.65 AUD
Category: General
A moving account of the author's maverick life as a mountaineer. Behind these tales of adventure lies a brooding disquiet as he struggles to come to terms with the grinding poverty and violence lurking so close to the surface of life everywhere that he travels. In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recall ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more