Curtain Up: Agatha Christie's Life in the Theatre by Julius Green
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Published in celebration of Agatha Christie's 125th birthday, Curtain Up! is an essential purchase for Agatha Ch ...Show more
Final Chapters - How Famous Authors Died by Jim Bernhard
$18.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
"Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case." --William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize--winning author Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
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Category: Literary
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
Jane and Me (My Austen Heritage) by Caroline Jane Knight
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Category: Literary
Caroline Jane Knight shares more than Jane Austen's name and DNA. As a direct descendant of Jane's brother, Edward Knight, Caroline is the last of the Austen Knight family to grow up at Chawton House on the estate where Jane Austen lived and enjoyed the most productive period of her writing career. Caro ...Show more
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
People Pick - O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now - Vanity Fair Hot Type - Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer - LitHub.com Best Book about Books - Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer - Seattle Times Book for Summer Reading - Warby Parker Blog Book Pick - Google Talks - Harper's Ba ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
The End of Your Life Book Club: A Mother, a Son and a World of Books by Will Schwalbe
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Category: Literary
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a 'book club' that brings them together as her life comes to a close. For fans of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Last Lecture. Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conv ...Show more
The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir by A. M. Homes
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Category: Literary
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to cor ...Show more
The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
"In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He died early in 2011. Marion Coutts was his wife. In short bursts of beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describ ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more