Gaddafi's Harem
Annick CojeanRRP: £12.99
Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making the following week. Thi …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Waging Peace
Anne DevesonRRP: £12.99
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelo …
Arthur Boyd
Darleen BungeyRRP: £18.99
Arthur Boyd’s legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself – enigmatic, inarticulate, modest – has remained in the shadows …
Wallaby Warrior
Greg GrowdenRRP: £12.99
When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games The Times pronounced: ‘If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be …
Son of a Gun
Justin St GermainRRP: £8.99
In Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001, Debbie St. Germain is found dead in her trailer, apparently murdered by her fifth husband. For her twenty-year-old son, Justin, the tragedy marks the line that s …
The Exotic Booze Club
Brian ArmstrongRRP: £12.99
At seven years old, the young Brian Armstrong was captivated by the pages of an old, yellow-bordered magazine. Twenty-five years later, the boy from Bendigo found himself travelling from one death-def …
The Liberty Tree
Suzanne HarringtonRRP: £8.99
Suzanne Harrington did all the things that adults do, long before she’d grown up: met Leo, married, had babies. She also partied, was homeless for a while, and drank – and drank. She headed towards di …
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Burt BacharachRRP: £12.99
Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Die …
Every Parent's Nightmare
Belinda HawkinsRRP: £12.99
Jock Palfreeman is a young Australian in jail in Sofia, Bulgaria, found guilty of the murder of Andrei Monov, the only son of two people well connected in Sofia’s legal fraternity. Jock claims he went …
The Pedant In The Kitchen
Julian BarnesRRP: £9.99
The Pedant’s ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic …
A Story of Seven Summers
Hilary BurdenRRP: £12.99
‘Looking back over seven summers, I know that who I am is where I am. It might not be the secret to life, but it is the secret to this life … I’ll tell you how that came to be and that will be the s …
Here I Am
Alan HuffmanRRP: £14.99
Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world’s most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Ci …
Rin Tin Tin
Susan OrleanRRP: £16.99
Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original ‘blonde bombshell’, epic in death as he was in life. In his …
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto ManguelRRP: £17.99
The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
Deception
Charles MirandaRRP: £9.99
He was a ‘crooked hat’, a bent copper, and he was working with a notorious Dutch crime cartel to flood Australia with millions of dollars’ worth of drugs. To those who knew him, Mark Standen was a sta …
The Twelve Caesars
Matthew DennisonRRP: £12.99
One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of …
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