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Christ Stopped at Eboli
Price: AUD 22.95 Author: Carlo Levi

The author's introduction to this re-issued edition of his work speaks of a man humble in self-assessment and humane above all else. Vehemently opposed to Fascism, Carlo Levi was banished to a small province of southern Italy, the experience of which form

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Mad World
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Paula Byrne

Brideshead revisited, again! This time, however, it is through the looking glass of Evelyn Waugh's own life. His time with the Lygons of Madresfield would be the stuff of his novel and an inspiration to him in his own relationships.

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A Nest of Occasionals
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Tony Martin

At one point in this collection of hilarious musings, Tony Martin – comedian, writer, New Zealander/Australian – is sitting having a coffee with his recently discovered sister and remarks to the reader that he loves having a new sister because "all the ol

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Joseph P. Kennedy's Hollywood Years
Price: AUD 59.99 Author: Cari Beauchamp

The Kennedy patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy, will long be remembered in Hollywood albeit not fondly. His time there was littered with nefarious deals as well as uncompromising and cruel relationships with others, from business partners to actors. His careful

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Handling Edna
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Barry Humphries

Housewife-megastar Dame Edna Everidge has been entertaining audiences since the 1950s. Her "manager" Barry Humphries lifts the lid on Edna's humble beginnings and subsequent career in this unauthorised biography and, in so doing, also reveals plenty about

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Confessions of a Not-so-Secret Agent
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Harry M. Miller

Harry M. Miller is larger than life and has often rivalled his clientèle for front page space in the daily newspapers, especially in Sydney. This is his story and, through him, the anecdotes of many Australian actors, politicians, and celebrities.

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A Life Like Other People's
Price: AUD 26.99 Author: Alan Bennett

The moment you open a book by Alan Bennett you are transported into his world – gentle, wry humour laced with sadness and joy. This is a memoir of his parents' marriage, his childhood, and his extended family.

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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988
Price: AUD 55.00 Author: Michael Palin

As has been remarked upon many times about comedians, they are not necessarily hysterically funny people all, or even some, of the time. In Palin's case, what he might lack in line-after-line of funny banter he more than makes up for with his writing prow

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Manhood for Amateurs
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Michael Chabon

Thirty-nine essays form this book of musings on being a man, a father, a husband, and a son. They are uncompromising, jarring, and beautifully sensitive at turns. Michael Chabon takes this opportunity of personal refection to extend his gaze to the broade

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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, and the Afterlife
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Francine Prose

This critic and teacher of writing views the diary of Anne Frank as a well-crafted, carefully written piece of literary history. It is an interesting new way to view this diary, and reminds us once again of the extraordinariness of Anne Frank.

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True Compass
Price: AUD 50.00 Author: Edward M. Kennedy

As with so many of his family, Edward "Ted" Kennedy lived and died on the public stage. This book began as a series of interviews conducted for the oral history project at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia and was then five years in the writ

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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Price: AUD 69.99 Author: Selina Hastings

In 1946 Somerset Maugham wrote "the first little splutter of interest that follows a person's death in the case of a writer is followed by some years of neglect". Selina Hastings, with this exhaustive biography of Maugham, has redressed any such neglect o

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William Charles Wentworth
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Andrew Tink

Andrew Tink, for nineteen years a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, has written a comprehensive biography of the man he would be happy to refer to as “Australia’s Founding Father” were we to ascribe such titles. Wentworth’s influence extended to the law, academia, and the media of early Australia and much of his legacy is still evident in our society today.

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The Thirty Six
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Siegmund Siegreich

“We were deprived of the most basic human rights: to live, to breathe, to die with dignity and to rest in a grave.” This is an excerpt from Siegmund Siegreich’s account of his life: his childhood in Poland, the horror of being taken off the street by German soldiers, his liberation in 1945, and his life in Melbourne, Australia.

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The Riddle of Father Hackett
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Brenda Niall

As with all her work, Brenda Niall has provided the reader with a thorough and fascinating account of her subject’s life. Father William Hackett was an Irish born Jesuit who travelled to Australia in the early 1920s, far from the heart of the struggle at home in the Irish Republic where he had been an active participant in the call for independence from Britain. Through exploring Father Hackett’s Australian life, Brenda Niall presents a prism through which the reader learns more of the then Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix.

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Unparalleled Sorrow
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Barry Dickins

Barry Dickins, with great candour and his trademark idiosyncratic style, takes us through his battle with the desperate disease of depression.

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The Real Possibility of Joy
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Josephine Emery

This is an intensely personal and honest account of Josephine Emery’s journey from childhood as a boy in South Australia into adulthood as a woman working in the film and arts worlds. She elucidates the challenges confronting her in both the male and female worlds she has inhabited and the emotional difficulties for herself and her extended family that do not necessarily ease with time.

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Battlelines
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Tony Abbott

This is Tony Abbott’s view of the political party to which he belongs. He refects on the end of the Howard regime and gives insights into his own career trajectory. A high profile member of the party, Tony Abbott tends to polarise and so is, at least, interesting.

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The Blue Hour
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Lilian Pizzichini

Jean Rhys is perhaps best known for her literary work, Wide Sargasso Sea, published quite late into her life. Reading this biography, it becomes apparent that Rhys felt most complete when engaged in writing, and that it was her solace from an emotionally chaotic life.

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Wildfower
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Mark Seal

In 2006 the author read of the murder of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya. Within a few weeks of reading the announcement, Mark Seal was in Kenya with Joan’s ex-husband, Alan Root, being given access to her personal letters and diaries. This is Joan’s story and inevitably Alan’s story as the couple had, at one time, been renowned wildlife filmmakers.

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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Neil White

At one time a national leprosarium, the Federal Medical Centre in Carville, Louisiana was, by the end of the 1990s, home to just over one hundred ‘lepers’ and hundreds of federal convicts. Neil White was convicted of bank fraud and was incarcerated in Carville for one year. His time there was spent interviewing all inmates and coming to an understanding of leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease.

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Might as Well Laugh About it Now
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Marie Osmond

Eight brothers, eight children, and a career in entertainment are the foundation stones of a biography that exudes everyday life rather than scandalous celebrity gossip. Her family’s fame means her story is also full of anecdotes from the world of show-business.

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Raising my Voice
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Malalai Joya

At thirty years of age, Malalai Joya has lived an extraordinary life. She is the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament, a post she cannot fulfil as her criticism of the ruling forces and her fearlessness in speaking out have resulted in her banishment. She continues, however, to challenge the world to see the truth behind the headlines and political rhetoric.

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Harold Macmillan
Price: AUD 69.99 Author: Charles Williams

In a review of this book in an English newspaper, Anthony Howard remarks on how reminiscent of the monarchs of early centuries Harold Macmillan’s time in British politics was and how adeptly the author weaves a portrait of a powerful man presiding, as it were, over his kingdom. Harold Macmillan was the British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 and is portrayed in this book with a fair but essentially critical eye.

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Waiting Room
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Gabrielle Carey

This is the first work I`ve read by Gabrielle Carey since the seminal Puberty Blues, which she co-authored in the 1970s, and I wasn`t disappointed. In this intimate, insightful memoir, Carey reveals how a family copes with a life-threatening illness (her mother`s brain tumour). As she delves into unspoken family history, Carey puts the spotlight on relationships, past and present, to deliver a most engaging read.

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David Williamson: Behind the Scenes
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Kristin Williamson

The influence of David Williamson on the literary and cultural pulse of the nation is hard to understate, especially when it is remembered that his plays have been forming part of Australia`s social commentary for more than forty years. Kristin Williamson, with her journalist`s ability for investigative questioning and succinct writing, conveys a sense of her husband that is helped rather than hindered by her personal connection to him.

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A Lion Called Christian
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Anthony Bourke & John Rendall

On Mother`s Day recently I bought this for my Mum, and wow, was I the popular daughter! She`d seen the famous YouTube segment and watched the documentary on the television, and was delighted to be able to read the whole story and fill in the gaps with this book. My own teenage daughter has since borrowed it, read it, and loved it. Now it`s my turn.

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Always Liza to Me
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Cecilia Rice

A bravely honest memoir, this is Cecilia Rice`s account of living with Liza, her disabled sister. It is a story of the turmoil of emotions for all involved and how this family unit came to achieve a loving, functioning life.

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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Peter Fitzsimons

Even today when air travel is commonplace, the sheer audacity of the pioneer aviators in thinking it was possible to fly is breathtaking.

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The Sisters Antipodes
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Jane Alison

This is a frank account of the lives of two families and two young girls. Opening in 1965, both families meet and instantly become connected and it is not long before divorces and remarriages occur between the four adults. Told through the eyes of one of the young girls, it is uncompromising in its detail of the disintegration of the separate family units and the devastating effect of their shared histories.

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