Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A new edition of one of the bestselling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author. The publication of 'Wild Swans' in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the bestselling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two mill ...Show more
Not Drowning, Reading by Andrew Relph
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
As a child, Andrew had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst, and professionally adept in the art of conversation. Not Drowning, Reading is a work of literary non-fiction a memoir about the art and the gift of reading. Relph's essays show how one might map a life through reading. From Amis to ...Show more
Bedtime Stories: 21 Years Behind the Mike at Late Night Live by Phillip Adams
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
For 21 years Phillip Adams has hosted Late Night Live, one of Radio National's flagship programs, expertly batting questions to world leaders, thinkers, ideologues, crackpots and gurus. In singular style Adams has interviewed thousands of people, many of whom have become regulars - and gathered a broad ...Show more
Vow: A Memoir of Marriage and Other Affairs by Wendy Plump
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
There are so many ways to find out. From a mobile phone. From a bank account. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005, Wendy Plump's neighbour came over to tell her that her husband was having an affair. The news hit her with an almost audible click. It was not a shock. ...Show more
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs Volume 1 1928-1969 by WIESEL, ELIE
$25.95 AUD
Category: General
Life After Death: The Shocking True Story of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Damien Echols
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
The true story of the wrongful conviction of the infamous West Memphis Three, Life After Death is a powerful and unflinching first-person account of life on death row. In 1993 three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley Jr, were arrested and charged with the murders of three eight ...Show more
Left for Dead: A True Story of Resilience and Courage by Sue Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Samantha Barlow, policewoman and mother of two young children, was brutally attacked with a brick on her way to work at Kings Cross Police Station and left for dead. Her injuries were horrendous, and she came close to death.
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
Running Away from Home : Finding a New Life in Paris, London and Beyond by Jane De Teliga
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
Jane de Teliga had it all - a glamorous and fulfilling career as style director for Australia's best-loved magazine, a happy family life and a beautiful home in Sydney's stunning eastern suburbs. But when empty nest syndrome struck, she suddenly found herself wondering what it all meant. Who was she whe ...Show more
Walking Free: From Iraqi Refugee to Pioneering Surgeon by Munjed Al Muderis
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
$31.95 AUD
Category: General
In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improba ...Show more