Dress, Memory
Lorelei VashtiRRP: £9.99
As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep?Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From fa …
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Havel
Michael ZantovskyRRP: £20.00
This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …
High Altitude
Mike AllsopRRP: £9.99
Having survived an almost unsurvivable plane crash, most people would be tempted to sit back, take a good hard look at life and take things a little bit easier. Mike Allsop is not most people. Almost …
Rod Laver
Rod LaverRRP: £14.99
‘From my earliest tennis memories, Rod Laver stood above all others as the greatest champion our sport has known.’ Roger FedererRod Laver’s autobiography tells the inspiring story of how a diminutive, …
Victoria
A. N. WilsonRRP: £14.99
The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain’s best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.
The Unravelling
Emma SkyRRP: £12.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for voluntee …
Cricket As I See It
Allan BorderRRP: £12.99
Allan Border is an elder statesman of Australian cricket. In the twenty years since he retired as captain he’s been one of the game’s closest and most astute observers. His views on cricket – based on …
Fighter Pilot
Mac 'Serge' TuckerRRP: £9.99
Mac Tucker, or ‘Serge’ to use his callsign, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal wh …
I, Migrant
Sami ShahRRP: £12.99
Despite being nearly killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia. He had fronted his own …
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The Baby Boom
P.J. O'RourkeRRP: £9.99
The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, ‘We are the world.’What’s so funny about peace, love …
Afterlife
Barry EatonRRP: £12.99
So what does happen when someone dies? What does it feel like? Why do some people find it hard to leave places and loved ones behind? And how do people who die in accidents and other sudden deaths far …
Charles Bean's Gallipoli
Phillip BradleyCharles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to …
Dancing With a Cocaine Cowboy
Robyn WindshuttleRRP: £12.99
This is the extraordinary story of a free-spirited girl from Sydney’s northern beaches who was catapulted into the middle of a European cocaine ring on her first day in Paris. A dancer with the Moulin …
Flight Command
John OddieRRP: £14.99
As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …
The Garments of Court and Palace
Philip BobbittRRP: £20.00
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics – and in particular the p …
The Iceberg
Marion CouttsRRP: £10.99
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 …
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