The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet ...Show more
House of Gucci - A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed by Sara Gay Forden
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office. In 1998, his ex-wife Patrizia ...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
Drawn Out - A Seriously Funny Memoir by Tom Scott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Tom Scott is a political commentator, political cartoonist, satirist, scriptwriter, playwright, raconteur and funny man. He's been drawing political cartoons for Wellington's Dominion Post since 1988, was in the Press Gallery and was famously banned by PM Muldoon. He's observed David Lange, ...Show more
Dark Tales from the Long River: A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier by David Price
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shock ...Show more
May Gibbs More Than A Fairytale by Robert Holden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
May Gibbs is one of Australia's most loved illustrators - her gumnut babies have been adored by generations of children. In May Gibbs: More than a fairy tale her early life and artistic career are explored in detail. Encouraged by her artistic parents, who met at London's famous Slade School of Art, a y ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Hell On The Way To Heaven by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"An Australian mother's love, the power of the Catholic Church and the fight for justice over child sexual abuse. Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known th ...Show more
Sheila: The Australian beauty who bewitched British society by Robert Wainwright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clai ...Show more
Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more