Over the Top
H.G. HartnettRRP: £9.99
Australia’s diggers didn’t go ‘over the top’ for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion – extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men. Henry George Hartnett, known as ‘Har …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Saving Private Sarbi
Sandra LeeRRP: £9.99
Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission …
Fire and Song
Anna LanyonRRP: £12.99
It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. …
George Smith
Rupert GuinnessRRP: £12.99
George Smith is one of the greatest players Australian rugby has ever produced, and certainly one of the all-time best, open-side flankers in the world arena.After becoming the fourth Wallaby and the …
Antonia and her Daughters
Marlena de BlasiThe renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and woman with the ‘fairytale life’, longs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by a …
Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers
Rosamund BurtonRRP: £9.99
Rich in history, castles and larger-than-life characters, St. Declan’s Way is one of Ireland’s best kept secrets.Rosamund’s adventures begin when she is lent a map of the ancient highway and pilgrim r …
Kokoda Wallaby
Andrew JamesRRP: £12.99
Stan Bisset was a real hero, both in battle, on the rugby pitch and in desperate armed combat against the Japanese during the Second World War.As a member of the ill-fated 1939 Wallaby touring team to …
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
James BellOn 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two year …
The Art of Perception
Robert LeafRRP: £16.99
Robert Leaf is the father of modern international public relations. The Art of Perception is the memoir of a life lived behind the scenes of the invisible business of perception management.
You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
Marieke HardyRRP: £12.99
He was wearing a pair of leather pants that clung like terrified orphans to his muscular thighs, and a revealing black mesh t-shirt. The outfit seemed at odds with the cream-coloured settee and floral …
Chinese Whispers
Jan WongRRP: £20.00
In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the Unit …
How to be a Better Person
Seb HunterRRP: £7.99
Why is it so difficult to find the time to help others? When Seb Hunter became aware of a nagging ache in the place where his soul ought to be, he embarked on a two year odyssey of volunteering – with …
Not Me
Joachim FestFew other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation’s modern history. His analy …
Tom Wills
Greg de MooreRRP: £8.99
This is the story of Tom Wills – flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent …
What It Is Like To Go To War
Karl MarlantesRRP: £12.99
In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military …
Barack Obama
David MaranissRRP: £35.00
In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama’s beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the f …
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