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
Mia Culpa: Confessions from the Watercooler of Life by Mia Freedman
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Mia Freedman has a knack for capturing the concerns, obsessions, passions and co-habitation rules of women and all the things that annoy or perturb them. She has an ear for the pressure points of life, whether it's children, husbands, parents, friends or jobs. And the great thing is that, like most wome ...Show more
Bumper: The Life and Legend of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Based on never-before-published family, police and court records, photographs, interviews with people who knew him, including criminals, football colleagues and police officers, this is the biography of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell. He was a gambler, a hard drinker, a devoted husband and father, a devout Cath ...Show more
Claude Levi Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
$59.99 AUD
Category: General
Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the modern classic "Tristes Tropiques", was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan and arguably changed the face of Western though ...Show more
Rare: A Life Among Antiquarian Books by Susan Kells
$65.00 AUD
Category: General
Beautiful and valuable books, these are the mainstays of the fascinating world of antiquarian books. Kay Craddock has lived in that world for over forty years. She embarked in buisness from very modest beginnings and overcame considerable cultural and personal obstacles to reach pre-eminance in the inte ...Show more
Agatha Christie - An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Chris ...Show more
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a ...Show more
Kingpin: The True Story of Max Butler, the Master Hacker Who Ran a Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Network by Kevin Poulsen
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious crook had staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. The culprit was a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double id ...Show more