Women in Dior by Laurence Benaim; Florence Muller (Foreword by)
89.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
A book on the celebrity clientele of Dior and their most famous dresses. In the same format as the successful Dior Impressions; Dior: The Legendary Photographers; and Dior: New Look Revolution, this latest Musée Christian Dior exhibition catalogue will appeal to a wide audience and is a must-have for ...Show more
I Hid My Voice by Parinoush Saniee
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn't speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life. Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him 'dumb ...Show more
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
59.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their hist ...Show more
My Year Without Meat by Richard Cornish
29.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
When food writer Richard Cornish was so overcome by the aroma of the roast leg of lamb he had buckled into the passenger seat next to him that he pulled over to the side of the road and tore it apart with his bare hands, he knew he had a problem. He began to examine what it means to eat meat by becoming ...Show more
Killer Look by Linda Fairstein
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Alexandra Cooper
New York City is known for its glamour, and nowhere is this more apparent than in its fashion scene. Sharing the pedestal with Paris, Milan, and London as fashion capital of the world, New York continually astounds with its creativity, daring, and innovations in the name of beauty. Yet high fashion mean ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty by Marina Benjamin
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience? The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay ...Show more
Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner by Franny Moyle
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mothe ...Show more
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer by Robert Macklin
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Hamilton Hume, a man with a profound understanding of the Aboriginal people and an almost mystical relationshi ...Show more
Blue Dog by Louis de Bernières
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' Guardian When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the hea ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
49.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us o ...Show more