Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing by Craig Munro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A candid, insightful memoir by one of Australia's foremost editors, who worked with many of the country's finest writers. It started in 1971, when Craig Munro was a young editor at the University of Queensland Press, with just a typewriter and a thumbed copy of the Chicago Manual of Style on his desk. O ...Show more
Tonio by van der Heijden Adri
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the 2012 Libris Literature Prize - the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize - and a bestseller in Holland and Germany, On Pentecost 2010, Tonio - the only son of writer Adri van der Heijden - is hit by a car. He dies of his injuries that same day. Tonio is only 21. His parents are faced with t ...Show more
Nick Maxwell: A Celebration by Nick Maxwell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
This is a snapshot of the former Collingwood captain's life - his decade in senior football, his family and his passions. Images and words tell the story of a man who had to make it the hard way via the rookie draft, and get the most out of every single opportunity that came his way. He was never the mo ...Show more
J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time by David Attwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
J. M. Coetzee-winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize-is one of the world's most celebrated and intriguing authors. Yet the heart of his fiction remains elusive. In J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative processes b ...Show more
Boyhoodlum by Anson Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A hilarious memoir and a crash-investigator's report into how not to be a boy. Anson Cameron was born in the Victorian town of Shepparton in 1961, the son of a country lawyer and an English rose. Through the shoeless neighbourhoods and surrounding forests, sipping a Blue Heaven milkshake, shooting at an ...Show more
Wild Man by Alecia Simmonds
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In April 2012, on a remote rural property in northern NSW named the School of Happiness, police shot dead Ryan Pringle. Ryan, who was high on a cocktail of drugs and who suffered from mental illness, had been threatening attendees of a hippie festival, known as a rainbow gathering, with a crossbow and h ...Show more
Augustus: A Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallie ...Show more
Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia's domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Ande ...Show more
Ted Hughes - the Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan ...Show more
Girl in the Woods - A Memoir by Aspen Matis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who d ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Great Australian Stories
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...' Boasting the biggest beat ...Show more
Breakfast, School Run, Chemo: the Sometimes Funny, Definitely Not Depressing, True Story of a Mum with Cancer by Julia Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I have cancer, but it's not who I am. Mother of four girls Julia Watson thought her world was falling apart when she found out she had terminal cancer. But with humour and courage, Julia faces the greatest challenge of her life - and in the process becomes the person she'd always wanted to be. A survi ...Show more