Making an Elephant by Graham Swift
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'An immensely readable volume. On every page, Swift emerges as a considerable essayist, who upholds the sterling virtue of good writing combined with emotional and intellectual engagement' Evening Standard As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way in ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 76 No 1 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
The writer's life ... it's not an easy one. In the autumn issue ofMeanjin Australian literary giant Frank Moorhousedescribes the often-difficult path followed by those hardy souls who take 'the writer's oath'. For the man behind Days of Wine and Rage, Forty Seventeen, Dark Palaceand the rest of the soon ...Show more
No Place to Hide : Edward Snowden the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
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Category: Current Affairs
This is the inside account of the events documented in Laura Poitras Citizenfour. Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian w ...Show more
White Beech: The Rainforest Years: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
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United States Naval Special Warfare: U.S. Navy Seals by Greg Edward Mathieson, Sr
$99.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Beautiful Songbirds: And the Joy They Inspire by Ashley Halsey
$12.99 AUD
Category: NON FICTION
Beautiful Songbirds celebrates the beauty of 30 of the most melodious backyard birds found in North America and abroad. Artist Ashley Halsey has created original watercolors of each bird in their natural landscape. Accompanying each lovely illustration are accompanying quotes from poets, writers and nat ...Show more
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy, and An Unqu ...Show more
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe by John Hands
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
What are we? And why are we here? are questions that have fascinated humans for at least 25,000 years. Cosmosapiens takes us on a quest to ascertain what science can reliably tell us about how and why we evolved from the origin of the universe and whether what we are makes us different from all other an ...Show more
Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible by Harriet Tuckey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is the winner of the 2013 Boardman Tasker prize winner of the 2013 mountain & wilderness prize, Banff festival. For the first time, drawing upon previously unseen diaries and letters, rare archive material and interviews, Everest - The First Ascent tells the remarkable story of Griffith Pugh, t ...Show more
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make liv ...Show more
The Story of Mohammed Islam Unveiled by Harry Richardson
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the scorching sands of Arabia, Mohammed ibn Abdullah (The Prophet Mohammed) had a problem. After preaching for 13 years he had attracted on average just 12 followers a year to his new religion of Islam. Worse still, half the people in his home town of Mecca wanted to kill him. After fleeing to Medina ...Show more