The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
$7.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat and a small hoard of books. The manager said no. ...Show more
The Cave: The Inside Story of the Daring Thai Cave Rescue by Liam Cochrane
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Twelve boys and one coach; ten kilometers of tunnels; one huge rescue effort. When a team of soccer players from the Wild Boar Academy Football Club - a scrappy club of undocumented migrants and outcasts - became stranded behind rising water in a labyrinthine Thai cave system, they set in train a drama ...Show more
French Women Don't Get Facelifts: Ageing with Attitude by Mireille Guiliano
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In the natural sequel to her international bestseller French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano tackles the delicate subject of aging - showing how women of forty and beyond can 'attack' the upcoming decades with attitude and style. Witty, perceptive and bursting with Mireille's personal experiences ...Show more
Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disapp ...Show more
Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesme ...Show more
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, a ...Show more
The Olive Grove by Patrice Newell
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A celebration of rural life from the disastrous to the comic. It has an eye on the bigger issues: localism versus globalism; natural farming versus the use of chemicals and the need for sustainability.
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
**International Bestseller** **The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year** **One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020** An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The C ...Show more
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a -: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN TOLD ABOUT HOW TO IMPROVE OUR LIVES IS WRONG. NOW SUPERSTAR BLOGGER MARK MANSON TELLS US WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GET IT RIGHT. For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. Drawing on academic research and the life experience that comes form br ...Show more
You're Still Hot to Me by Jean Kittson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A fact-filled conversation starter on menopause by comedian and health campaigner Jean Kittson.When Jean Kittson hit menopause, she was amazed at what she didn't know. Given that 1.5 million Australian women are menopausal at any one time, why, she wondered, was menopause so little discussed and then on ...Show more