Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Gudinski - The Godfather of Australian Rock by Stuart Coupe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business - and has been for the last four decades. Often referred to as 'the father of the Australian music industry', he has nurtured the careers of many artists - ...Show more
Anti Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Brutal, brave, hilarious - a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you. Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while ...Show more
A House in St John's Wood - In Search of My Parents by Matthew Spender
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
A intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by his son, Matthew Spender, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and unpublished archives. Stephen Spender's life was a vivid prism on the twentieth century. Having met Auden and Isherwood at Oxford, he joined the early ...Show more
The Expedition : Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
11 July, 1897. Three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never return. Two days into their journey they make a crash landing then disappear into a white nightmare. 33 years later. The men's bodies are found, perfectly preserved under the snow and ice. They had enough food, c ...Show more
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
William S. Burroughs - A Life by Barry Miles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical politica ...Show more
Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in ...Show more
Growing Old Outrageously: A Memoir of Travel, Food and Friendship by Hilary Linstead
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning ...Show more
Gilliamesque - A Pre-Posthumous Memoir (HB) by Terry Gilliam
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of '60s and '70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first t ...Show more
Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives by Frank Key
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Wesley, Samuel (British clergyman and poet, 1662 - 1735). On Christmas Day 1716, Wesley was haunted by an apparition of a badger with no head. It was called Jeffrey. Frank writes: "It occurred to me that it would be a good idea to write a modern, updated version of John Aubrey's Brief Lives. But it furt ...Show more
Take My Hand: Inspiring Nursing Stories from the McGrath Foundation by Jo Wiles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Jane McGrath met breast care nurse Alison Szwajcer after her diagnosis of secondary breast cancer her words were, 'Today I met an angel'. It was then she realised she could make a difference to all Australians experiencing breast cancer - to help them and their families through this confusing, upse ...Show more