Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Unbreakable by Jess Halloran, Jelena Dokic
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell.Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more
My Father's Suitcase by MARY GARDEN
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a ...Show more
Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You by Maisie Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Health & wellbeing
'Maisie Hill has written a bloody brilliant book (pun intended). Everything you need to know about periods and how they affect you and your life is here. It's revolutionary' - Miranda Sawyer'Thank GOODNESS for Maisie Hill! Flipping open the lid on a vital conversation. It's about time we claimed the pow ...Show more
Mothering Heights: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Health & wellbeing
A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a year-in-the-life love story about becoming a mother from the hilarious author of Pardon My French, Rachael Mogan McIntosh. For fans of ABC TV's The Letdown, Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina and Alison Pearson's I Don't Know How She ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
The Lives of Literature - Reading, Teaching, Knowing by Arnold Weinstein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Reading & writing
A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other li ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard (Selected by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading & writing | Series: Curated by Jennie Orchard
With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Sai ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.99 AUD
Category: History & military | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
The Menopause Brain: The New Science for Women To Navigate Midlife and Optimise Brain Health for Later Years by Lisa Mosconi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Health & wellbeing
The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain outlines the latest science showing how to navigate perimenopause and menopause successfully, and come out the other side with an even better brain. Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as t ...Show more
Reed Concise Guide Animals of Australia: Reed Concise Guide by Stepnell Ken
$16.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Covers over 200 species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Contains 250 photographs illustrating key features. Written accounts on habitat, behaviour and range. Plastic cover ideal for use in field.