I'll Drink to That - New York's Legendary Personal Shopper and Her Life in Style - With a Twist by Betty Halbreich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Betty Halbreich is a true original. Now in her eighties, she has spent nearly forty years at the luxury store Bergdorf Goodman, working with socialites, stars and ordinary women. She has led many to appreciate their real selves through clothes, frank advice and her unique brand of wisdom; she is trusted ...Show more
Settling Day by Kate Howarth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Following on from her award-winning memoir Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth's extraordinary life continues in Settling Day. Thrust out of her son's life while he is still a toddler, teenaged Kate has to rely on her wits and courage to start life anew. Filled with remorse and an unwavering determination to b ...Show more
Gone to Ground: One Woman's Extraordinary Account of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany by Marie Jalowicz-Simon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an ass ...Show more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Vmc Designer Collection
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume ...Show more
Whitey by Gerard O'Neill; Dick Lehr
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the bestselling writers of Black Mass, now a major film, comes the definite biography of Whitey Bulger - the most brutal modern day mafia boss since Gotti. Drawing on previously classified material, Whiteytells the story of James J. 'Whitey' Bulger, the crime boss, psychopath and killer who brough ...Show more
Man of Iron - The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand WWI Hero Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone by Jock Vennell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone is one of New Zealand's best-known World War I soldiers, having held off fierce Turkish counter-attacks for nearly two days before being killed by a shell from a British warship. The defense of Chunuk Bair has been described as one of New Zealand's finest hours. Malone ...Show more
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 3 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
Hemingway in Love: His Own Story by A. E. Hotchner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This Hemingway memoir completes A.E. Hotchner's international blockbuster Papa Hemingway, originally published fifty years ago. Hemingway in Love includes material previously withheld from publication, illustrated by photographs drawn from Hotchner's own collection. As a friend and confidante, Hotchner ...Show more
Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
'I've lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac - and that's just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?' When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favourite pieces for her new book she realised that they all seemed to join up. Turns out, it's the same old p ...Show more
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession- that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although La ...Show more
Our Vietnam Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much har ...Show more
The Age of Bowie - How David Bowie Made a World of Difference by Paul Morley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
'A handsome six footer with a warm and engaging personality, Davie Jones has all it takes to get to the show business heights including ...talent.' David Bowie at 17 in May, 1964 writing his own press biography. Respected arts commentator Paul Morley, one of the team who curated the highly successful re ...Show more