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$55.90Christopher Isherwood Inside OutAn engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and lettersChristopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and set out to make a different one. Heir to an English estate, he flunked out of university, moved to...Visit Store 0 0 -
$28.90Memorial Days.A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and...Visit Store 0 0 -
$30.90Goliath's CurseA radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.For the first 300,000 years of human history, hunter-gathering Homo sapiens lived in fluid, egalitarian civilizations that thwarted any indi...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40.90StrangersThe must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, based on the iconic 'Modern Love' essay in the New York Times and perfect for fans of Glennon Doyle.The empowering, must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, perfect for read...Visit Store 0 0 -
$30.90Poet, Mystic, Widow, WifeWhat was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear their stories?Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least...Visit Store 0 0 -
$35.90Haunted By ErewhonSamuel Butler, born in England, lived in Canterbury, New Zealand, from 1860 to 1864. He became a notable explorer and successful sheep farmer in a part of the Southern Alps now renowned for its use in the Lord of the Rings. His satiric fiction Erewhon and his autobiographical novel The Way of All Fl...Visit Store 0 0 -
$30.90BookishThe highly anticipated sequel to BOOKWORM about how books of all kinds delight, guide, comfort and strengthen us throughout our adult livesA love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clot...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40.90Accidental History of Tudor EnglandA unique new window onto Tudor life, told through ordinary people's untimely deaths.How did ordinary people live in Tudor England? This unique history unearths the ways they died to find out.Uncovering thousands of coroners' reports, An explores the history of everyday life, and everyday death, in a...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40.90Titanic Story of EvelynThe never-before-told true story of a brave young nurse who was the only Australian survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.Evelyn Marsden was a young girl with big dreams. Born in the dusty backblocks of South Australia, she was an accomplished horsewoman and a champion rower who, during family holi...Visit Store 0 0 -
$70.90Power LinesA collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking-and our world.In a world where Google Maps has largely taken over utilitarian functions like finding destinations and providing directions, printed maps still stir our imagin...Visit Store 0 0 -
$30.90Made in ManchesterA rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.'Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the 'shock city' of...Visit Store 0 0 -
$28.90UnsayableAn intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side.At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collectin...Visit Store 0 0 -
$45.90Art of Time Travel, ThePassionate and elegant, The Art of Time Travel conjures fresh insights into the history of Australia and renews our sense of the historian's craft.'No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel i...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40.90StakesA darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author’s bestselling memoir, Grand.You have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire’s badness in the house with you.Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a su...Visit Store 0 0 -
$38.90A Place to StandClare Ward is a country doctor living and working in the Hokianga Harbour area in the far north of Aotearoa New Zealand, a sparsely populated area where there are many health challenges.This thoughtful memoir tells the story of Clare's thirty-year working life, the people she works with and the remo...Visit Store 0 0 -
$59.95What Do You Do When You're LonesomeThe authorized biography of singer-songwriter Justin Townes EarleWhen Justin Townes Earle died in 2020 at the age of 38 of an overdose, alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in Nashville, his death sent waves of grief through the country-Americana music community. The son of alt-country hellraiser...Visit Store 0 0 -
$30.90My Katherine Mansfield ProjectThis lovely meditation on the great Katherine Mansfield and the idea of home is perfect for fans of Mansfield and readers of memoir and biography.In 2009, Kirsty Gunn returned to spend the winter in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, also the place where Katherine Mansfield grew up. In this ex...Visit Store 0 0 -
$48.90Judy BlumeThe definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.To know the name to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics - including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Tal...Visit Store 0 0 -
$65.90Migrants, TheA brilliant memoir of adolescence in New Zealand and of the migration of European manuscripts to the far side of the worldChristopher de Hamel is one of the world’s best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where his family mo...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40.90Things I Told My Notes AppThe candid, laugh-out-loud guide on self-love and learning to choose yourself from a self-proclaimed oversharer - perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love.Milly Goldsmith is the girl you meet in a club toilet whose advice changes your life forever.is told straight from the...Visit Store 0 0 -
$38.90Rule Of LiesAn American lawyer's brilliant, propulsive story of witnessing and playing a part in the transformation of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. A true tale of fascinating personalities, criminal intrigue, harrowing situations, audacious actions and international politics that combines Bill Browder's Red...Visit Store 0 0 -
$40.90Dark Side of the EarthOn April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - launches into space.In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that a single generation - just three decades - would separate the USSR's crowning...Visit Store 0 0 -
$30.90More and More and MoreA radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will alter how we discuss climate changeIt has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all...Visit Store 0 0 -
$31.90Taiwan Story, TheIn this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's future An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone's future.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao's Communists wo...Visit Store 0 0
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