Not Your Ordinary Housewife: How the Man I Loved Led Me into a World I Had Never Imagined by Nikki Stern
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How does a young girl, educated at Melbourne's exclusive MLC, with degrees in Science and Design, become Australia's best-known porn star - The Horny Housewife? Nikki Stern had a very privileged start in life. Her father was in Who's Who and her mother was once a famous ballerina. Having graduated from ...Show more
Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror by Maj. Gen. John CANTWELL w/ Greg BEARUP
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a country boy from Queensland, John Cantwell signed up to the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried alive Iraqi troops in their trenches. He fought in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car ...Show more
Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
John Elder Robison (the brother of Augusten Burroughs of Running with Scissors fame) wasn't a model child. For those who read John's first book Look Me in the Eye, he was awkward in school; he ran away from home; he threatened people with knives. As an adult, he learned he had Asperger's syndrome, which ...Show more
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
In May 2012 Kirstie Clements was unceremoniously sacked after thirteen years in the editor's chair at Vogue Australia. Here she tells the story behind the headlines, and takes us behind the scenes of a fast-changing industry. During a career at Vogue that spanned twenty-five years, Clements rubbed shoul ...Show more
Waging Peace by Anne Deveson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of experiences in public and private life to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace. Deveson tells of ...Show more
Martha Gelhorn - A Life by Caroline Moorehead
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Martha Gellhorn was a fearless reporter and her despatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private life was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous success - contributed to the breakdown of her already stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Gel ...Show more
The Cooked Seed by Anchee Min
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1994, Anchee Min published Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. It became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, Anchee Min returns to give us the next chapter, as she moves from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden boun ...Show more
Pete Townshend: Who I am by Pete Townshend
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshend's life simply through his achievements with bandmates Daltrey, Moon and Entwistle. Noting that he has sold over 100 millio ...Show more
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them.' - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie'a true meditation on what books can do.' - Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesMary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when ...Show more
Is it Just Me? by Miranda Hart
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometime ...Show more
The Local Wildlife by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to northern New South Wales, where the 'local wildlife' doesn't just mean the native fauna, but the people as well. When Robert Drewe moved to this small community, he was expecting a few eccentrics and interesting animals -- and he got them.