Lorde: Your Heroine (Unauthorised Biography) by Marc Shapiro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The unauthorised biography of the New Zealand teen superstar, Lorde by a New York Times bestselling author.
Once a Jolly Hangman - True Stories from Singapore's Death Row by Alan Shadrake
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Singapore has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the world. Its government claims that only the death penalty can deter drug dealers from using their country as a transport hub - but this hard-hitting investigation reveals disturbing truths about how and when the death penalty is applied. ...Show more
Words and Pictures by Quentin Blake
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Following on from our hugely successful publication of Beyond the Page, we are thrilled to be publishing Words and Pictures in paperback for the first time. This is the fascinating insight into Quentin's work before Beyond the Page, from the start of his career until 2000. The words describe his approac ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History: volume 1 by Jenny Hocking
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The first contemporary biographical study of Gough Whitlam from his childhood in Canberra, his extensive war service and marriage to Margaret. This book draws upon the author's unprecedented access to archival material and interviews with family and colleagues and with Gough himself.
Gangland Australia by James Morton; Susanna Lobez
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Gangland Ser.
"Gangland Australiadetails the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia for over two centuries. In this fully updated and bestselling book, Britain's top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadca ...Show more
Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by P. D. James
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literary
P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks bac ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$32.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: good
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit ...Show more
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years, this is a biographical trip told through sport, families and the author's own experiences. He weaves in and around the events that have held a fascination for Australia. Some of these events would be considered momentous, some s ...Show more
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists by Neil Strauss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it. Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist - men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques of seducing women. None of this is fiction. These men have their own vernacular and codes of honour, they trade strategies ...Show more
What's It All About? by Michael Caine
$27.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour. And with typical charm and ...Show more
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Biggest Hit in Mob History by Charles Brandt
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more