Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius by John Carlin
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"In Chase Your Shadow, journalist and author John Carlin tells the gripping story of Oscar Pistorius's tragic journey from sporting icon to accused murderer. Before Valentine's Day of 2013, Pistorius was best known as an extraordinary athlete, the 'Blade Runner' who became the first amputee in history t ...Show more
Ocean Notorious. Journeys to lost and lonely places of the deep south by Matt Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
For lovers of exciting non-fiction about remote and rarely visited places - and maritime adventures. True first-person stories of the Southern Ocean from NZ to Antarctica - the windiest, roughest, most isolated body of water on earth. Can be compared with: - Simon Winchester's Atlantic - Johnny Wray's S ...Show more
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It by Mark Pendergrast
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
From its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the ultimate symbol of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century, Coca-Cola's dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate business saga. In this fully revised and expanded edition of "For God, C ...Show more
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of 'Backlash', an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. "In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a gr ...Show more
Life After Death Shocking True Story by Damien Echols
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1993 three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley Jr, were arrested and charged with the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The ensuing trial was rife with inconsistencies, false testimony and superstition. Echols was accused of, among other things, ...Show more
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The story of the woman who rose to be Director-General of Britain's Security Service, MI5, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1996. Stella Rimington worked to Director level in all main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. During her ...Show more
Children's House of Belsen by Hetty E. Verolme
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Hetty's family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Children's House, within Belsen concentration camp. As one of the eldest, Hetty became the 'Little Mother', helping to ca ...Show more
Madness: A Memoir by Kate Richards
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard for the sun. Sometimes it is a well of dark water with no bottom, or a levitation device to the stars. Madness, a Memoir is an insight ...Show more
Boy Lost A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms at a train station in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, and in no way prepared for this final blow. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kris ...Show more
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and successful. You would be charmed by her if you met her, might even be seduced by her. You would not realise that she is studying you to find your flaws, that she is ruthlessly manipulative, has no empathy and do ...Show more
Sleeping with Dogs by Brian Sewell
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Sleeping with Dogs is the record of one man's passionate affection for the dog, rooted in his early childhood and lasting undiminished into his dotage. These were for the most part dogs discarded and left to fate - tied to the railings of Kensington Gardens, found with a broken leg in the wilds of Turke ...Show more
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by FRANZEN, JONATHAN
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own ber-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Ch ...Show more