Night by Elie Wiesel
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Born in an Hungarian ghetto, Elie Wiesel was sent as a child to the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. 'Night' is the story of that atrocity; here he relates his childhood perceptions of an inhumanity that was as painful as it was absolute. Written in Paris after the war, 'Night' was first pu ...Show more
I'm Over All That: and Other Confessions by Shirley MacLaine
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
Shirley MacLaine returns with the most accessible, funny and timely book of her career, detailing all the things she's over... and a few she's not.
Cooking for Claudine: How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
For John Baxter - acclaimed film critic and food lover - that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his sceptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet. His year-long quest takes readers to the farth ...Show more
Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the inner world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written on Robben Island and i ...Show more
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty - fathering twelve children between them - each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordi ...Show more
Family Law by Benjamin Law
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? ...Show more
And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker - A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal by Christopher Ward
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down. The violinist ...Show more
The Reading Promise: 3218 Nights of Reading with My Father by Alice Ozma
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become their reading ritual. They decided ...Show more
The Tao of Wu by The "RZA" by The RZA
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop's most exalted wise man. The RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop culture's most dynamic genius, imparts the lessons he's learned on ...Show more
Confessions of a Young Novelist by Umberto Eco
$29.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist and explores their fruitful conjunction. This book takes reader ...Show more
Extravagant Hunger by Anne Zimmerman
$38.99 AUD
Category: General
In "An Extravagant Hunger," time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the "Berengaria" that washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most ...Show more
Not Dark Yet by David Walker
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Spurred on by his encroaching blindness, prominent historian David Walker's Not Dark Yet is a frank, witty and innovative memoir that connects the small, seemingly inconsequential events of daily life to larger historical themes of family, war, patriotism, racial identity, religious belief, knowledge of ...Show more