Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land (h/B) by Maggie MacKellar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – th ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left behind.'Her messages met me like guideposts in a dark forest; if her words couldn't point the way, at least they offered the comfort of knowing someone had been there before' Ten days before Gwen K ...Show more
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more
Capote's Women: The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS by Laurence Leamer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A JUICY, ENGAGING READ.' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, th ...Show more
I've Been Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
One of philosophy's finest minds looks back over a life in thought 'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?' Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Denne ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz - The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century--Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton--became bitter rivals and, eventually, friends. Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton ...Show more