Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'To eat is to build upon our collective story. We use food to say, again and again, who we are.' Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, reve ...Show more
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems complet ...Show more
Turning Points: 25 Remarkable Australians and the Moments that Changed Their Lives by CLARK, MARY RYLLIS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
‘The thought began to form in my mind that many people would have a powerful story to tell about a turning point that led to them finding their purpose — their passion.’When historian Mary Ryllis Clark came across her copy of Austrian philosopher and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s A Man’s Search for ...Show more
The Reactor - A Book About Grief And Repair by NIck Blackburn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald'Completely compelling.' Olivia Laing'Read it with awe and sorrow.' Fatima BhuttoAfter the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How ...Show more
Camera Girl - The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writi ...Show more
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost - as witnessed from the fields of a small Lake District farmAs a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient landscape- a ...Show more
The girl who left: From Croatia to the canefields by Debra Gavranich
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biographies
Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920 ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth (Illustrated Edition) by Eddie Jaku
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He ...Show more
Spanian: The Unfiltered Hood Life by Spanian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
By the time he was twelve, Spanian knew he would follow his family's footsteps to become a career criminal. What followed was a decade-long string of brazen crimes and brutal violence: stabbings, ram-raids, drug runs and a notorious high school siege. Throughout the Sydney social housing enclaves of Red ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor: Now a major BBC comedy-drama by Adam Kay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior do ...Show more
Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours later, at the age of 27, his heart stopped. Found, Wanting tells the story of Natasha’s attempt to rebuild her life in the wake of Rob’s sudden death, stumbl ...Show more