Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers
$59.95 AUD
Category: General
Writing about Hugo Vickers' last book for Hutchinson, "Elizabeth, The Queen Mother", a succession of fellow biographers applauded Vickers' unique skill. "Masterly ...Hugo Vickers' long immersion in the history and dramatic personae of the Royal Family has certainly paid off". (Selina Hastings). 'A bulgi ...Show more
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
$52.95 AUD
Category: General
'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and a ...Show more
Be Different : Adventures of a Free-range Aspergian by John Elder Robison
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
The author of Look Me In The Eye returns, with endearing stories and actionable advice that will help Aspergians, and even ordinary geeks, embrace being different and work on the things that hold them back in life. With his usual honesty, dry wit, and unapologetic eccentricity, John Robison argues that ...Show more
Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of ...Show more
Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by BIELE JOELLE ED
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and ...Show more
Notebooks by Betty Churcher
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the artworks and the processes of their creation. ...Show more
Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
The first time Brenda Walker packed her bag to go into hospital, she wondered which book to take with her. As a novelist and professor of literature, her life had been built around reading and writing. Now she was also a patient, being treated for breast cancer, fighting for her life and afraid for hers ...Show more
When Horse Became Saw: A Family's Journey Through Autism by Anthony Macris
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Anthony Macris and his wife were, for an all-too-brief period, the happiest of parents when their son Alex was born. Until autism descended, in a swift and brutal wave, sweeping away the child they knew and leaving them to watch helplessly as his mind disintegrated. Their vibrant, healthy boy, who up to ...Show more
Much Love, Jac by Weaver Jacki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Y.A Fiction
Dubbed a National Treasure by Gough Whitlam, a Gay Icon by Les McDonald and a Household Name by the Sydney Morning Herald ('so is Sorbent,' her unimpressed mother remarked), Jacki Weaver has combined a distinguished acting career with a tumultuous personal life. A self-confessed bolter and adventuress, ...Show more
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to t ...Show more
Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family by Tim Bonyhady
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for the following century. Tim Bonyhady's great-grandparents were leading patrons of the arts in fin de sile V ...Show more
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Dave Eggers is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically lauded A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Here he chronicles the Kafka-esque tribulations of Syrian-American Abdulrahman Zeitoun in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. His story is a moving testament to the resilience of the human ...Show more