Gun to the Head: My life as a tactical cop. The impact. The aftermath. by Keith Banks
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the bestselling author of Drugs, Guns & Lies, comes Keith's story of what it was really like to be a tactical police officer in the violent and corrupt eighties 'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ‘I wasn’t ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council wo ...Show more
I Am NOT Fine, Thanks by Wil Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Good sense, good jokes, and good WIL- a book about enduring turbulent times with humour, community and just a dash of apple cider vinegar. How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the tradition was to reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' Then you would ask how they were ...Show more
I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else by Tom Ballard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After 30 years of his entitled Millennial life and one buy-now-pay-later pandemic, comedian Tom Ballard has had enough of the smashed avocado jokes. He's furious at the raw deal his (and every subsequent) generation has been given, and he's pretty sure things can't be this crappy because of brunch. In h ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role co ...Show more
Mindhunter by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
THE BESTSELLING TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science, John Douglas, is a man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime ...Show more
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This debut from a former Queensland judge's associate breaks the silence around sexual assault and all the ways Australia's court system tries to silence victims. If you're wondering why Australia's #metoo movement hasn't g ...Show more
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Blood, Bones & Butterfollows the chef Gabrielle Hamilton's extraordinary journey through the places she has inhabited over the years- the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where sh ...Show more
A Story of Seven Summers: Life at the Nuns' House by Hilary Burden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Looking back over seven summers, I know that who I am is where I am. It might not be the secret to life, but it is the secret to this life...I'll tell you how that came to be and that will be the story of The Nuns' House.' On the outside, Hilary Burden was living a glamorous life - she was a busy, high ...Show more
Scott's Final Expedition by Scott Captain Robert Falcon
$49.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Scott of the Antarctic's amazing diary of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition in which he perished along with Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans after reaching the South Pole behind Roald Amundsen. Scott's diary has been constantly in print since first publication in 1913 and ha ...Show more