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Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging
Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock has captivated and perplexed generations. But the woman behind the novel is as much an enigma as the disappearance of the fictitious schoolgirls and...
The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines
'Far and away the most profound, beautiful, and inspiring nonfiction book published in New Zealand in 2024.' - Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'Extraordinary ... enthralling' - The Daily Telegraph (UK) 'Brilliant'...
Bookshop Dogs
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many...
The Bookseller at the End of the World
'An extraordinary story.' Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from...
Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir
'Deeply thoughtful, unflinchingly honest and heartwarmingly original. Ben's unique creativity is clearly not limited to Attica.' Hamish Blake 'Powerful, vulnerable, intense, full of love and some darkness too.' Matty Matheson,...
Exteriors - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books -...
A Girl's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In A Girl's Story , her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she...
I Remain in Darkness - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile,...
The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire
A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...
A Woman in the Polar Night
In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She...
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
A gripping portrait of the man considered the last universal genius that takes us on a mind-expanding journey through the history of ideas 'The Leibniz biography for our time. It...
The Friday Afternoon Club: The 'wise, funny and generous' New York Times bestseller
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's...
The Use of Photography
The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
A Woman's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite...
A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
I Will Come Back for You: The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis
'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: By the daughter of Gisele Pelicot: Turning our family trauma of Chemical Submission into a collective fight
The trial of Dominique Pelicot, which began on 2 September 2024, has captured the world's attention. Behind the haunting details of Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother and daughter who...
Maggie: In her own words
'Delving into the pages of Maggie is rather like straying into her boudoir.' -Jane Fraser, Weekend Australian 'She has been role model, taste guru, and surrogate media guardian for many...
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia
Winner of the Canberra Critics' Circle Memoir/History Award 2024 As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk...
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an all-night runner
'[Karnazes'] spirited memoir . . . can help mere mortals who want to push past their perceived limits or simply jump-start their sedentary lives.' - Chicago Tribune In this updated...
I Don't
I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women are allowed to aspire to more than what we've been told we should...
Bush School
There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails...
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The...
The Shipwreck Hunter: A lifetime of extraordinary discovery and adventure in the deep seas
'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of...
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer
Winner of the 2014 National Biography Award 'An engrossing biography of a fascinating and fearless modern woman.' - Professor Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University In a period when most ladies...
Great Australian Horse Stories
Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life the exploits--funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic--of horses from all over the nation. Outback legends, loyal carthorses, spectacular high jumpers and trusty stock horses....
Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg
He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. 'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt...
My Roman Year: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name
**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'There is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman's prose that enraptures with its slow, easy embrace.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Aciman's evocation...
Birthday Letters
'To read [ Birthday Letters ] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends'. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance...
Unlikely: The surprising personal story behind the garage startup that became a $100m national health brand
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Sir Peter Blake: An Amazing Life
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Patsy Adam-Smith Collection: "Goodbye Girlie", "Hear the Train Blow", " There Was a Ship"
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Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary
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