Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his story. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Singular' Daily Telegraph 'Powerful' New York Times 'Vital' i 'Vivid... Moving... Juicy' NPR 'A profoundly talented writer' Elizabeth Day ...Show more
Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld by Jake Adelstein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vicethat is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijincrime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking c ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$26.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems—from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to R ...Show more
Paris Spleen - Dual-Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire; Martin Sorrell (Translator); Maurice Stang (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sens ...Show more
The Last Secret Agent: The Untold Story of My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Enemy Lines by Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Dragons and Serpents - Earth Mysteries and the Time of Change by Stefan Broennle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Explores the importance of dragon and serpent energies and symbols from prehistory to the present around the world. Revealing how dragons and serpents are deeply embedded in the story of humankind and the Earth itself, from prehistory to the present, Stefan Broennle takes us on a journey through the ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More by G. Neri
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Follow Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author G. Neri to the end of the world in a captivating travel memoir that explores Antarctica through the curiosity and wonder of his inner child-the kid who dreamed of one day becoming an explorer.Antarctica is a land of extremes-the coldest, windiest, highest, ...Show more