Wedderburn: A true tale of blood and dust by Maryrose Cuskelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of a grisly triple murder in Central Victoria in October 2014 - contemporary Australian true crime at its best. An ugly story told beautifully. WEDDERBURN will hold you tightly in its grip, and leave an imprint when it lets you go.' Myfanwy Jones'In WEDDERBURN, we see the trauma caused by the ...Show more
Ralph Doubell: Do Not Worry, It Is Only Pain: The Story of Australia's Last Male Olympic Track Champion by Michael Sharp
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
On the biggest day of his sporting life, he ran the perfect race. 'Beautifully executed right through,' is how the BBC's David Coleman called Doubell's 800 metres live. The Mexico City Olympics in 1968 were highly controversial, but Doubell pushed that turmoil from his mind. His winning time would have ...Show more
Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir by Anne Summers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
"I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me. ...Show more
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch by Knausgaard, Karl Ove
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch?s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss' Cheryl Strayed 'Funny, lucid, and deeply generous - proof that a masterful writer can make from his own specifics a universal story with lessons for us all' Lucy Kalanithi, wife of Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becom ...Show more
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe: A Memoir by Adélaïde Bon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality" - LEILA SLIMANI, author of Lullaby A powerful and personal account of the devastating consequences of childhood rape: a valuable voice for the #MeToo conversation. Adélaïde Bon grew up in a wealthy neighb ...Show more
The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Praise for Corey White's stand-up- 'Captivating' Tom Gleeson 'It's a spiritually enriching show. Whitey has safer hands than Gilchrist circa 2003 ... Strap in for this one, it's a harrowing little number that leaves you in a good mood, quite a feat.' Herald Sun 'Corey White runs the full gamut of human ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
So Anyway ... by John Cleese
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripa ...Show more
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace*Rabbit superheroes. A theory of masks and capes. Victorian otherlands. From her 1940s childhood to her time at Harvard, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF. In 2010, she delivered a lecture series at Emory University called 'In Other ...Show more