Wife and Baggage to Follow by Rachel Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Eye-opening first-hand accounts from Australian diplomats' wives, from the founding of the diplomatic service till recent decades. Adventure, hardship, war, opportunity, these are the fish-out-of-water stories of intelligent, dedicated women raising families in far-flung corners of the globe. They were ...Show more
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Call Me Sasha by Geena Leigh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At just fifteen years old, Geena had no choice but to leave home. Without an education or any real options, she found herself being lured into the sex industry by the promise of big money and the validation of strangers, she turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of day to day life as a call girl ...Show more
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
$31.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott ...Show more
Storyteller by Zoe Daniel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Zoe Daniel is the ABC's South-East Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok with her husband and young family. She reports on nine countries across Southeast Asia filing copy and stories for TV, radio, online and social media. She was the Africa correspondent from 2005 until 2007 and spent 2009 covering the ...Show more
Locked In: One Man's Miraculous Escape from the Terrifying Confines of Locked-in Syndrome by Richard Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't moving at all. Couldn't move at all.' I ...Show more
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dylan Thomas' letters to the many women in his life are among the most emotive, lyrical and beautiful that he wrote. Full of humour, longing and uninhibited honesty, these letters include those written to his wife Caitlin and his childhood sweetheart, Vera Philips.
A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for the author, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles off the east coast of Africa, armed Somali pirates attacked and boarded the freighte ...Show more
Deep Field - Behind the Frontlines of Aid Relief: from Pakistan to Kazan, the Punjab to the Pacific by Tom Bamforth
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'Deep Field' is a UN term for humanitarian operations that take place in extremis - amid the destruction caused by war and natural disaster, beyond the boundaries of what is controllable and known. This book takes the reader 'deep field' in the footsteps of Tom Bamforth, an aid worker responding to the ...Show more
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers (Royal Society of Literature)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who exquisitely personified the decades between the two world wars, was a gifted, acclaimed author who nonetheless "could neither change his domestic life nor stop writing about it." Jeffrey Meyers offers a frank, ambitious foray into Fitzgerald's privat ...Show more
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land - a True Detective Story by Patrick Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From bestselling author of Fighter Boys, the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold morning in February 1942, with the world plunged in the horrors of World War Two, Avraham Stern hid in an attic in Tel Aviv, a price on his head. He'd been on ...Show more
Stoker Munro: Survivor by David Spiteri
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ...We were a go ...Show more