It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of …
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It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of …
Over the last thirty years Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. His originality, bravery, range and wit made him first a leading iconoclast of the political left, and then later …
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, A LONG WALK …
The highly acclaimed biography of the terrifying and fascinating Russian leader, Stalin, written by one of our greatest contemporary historians of Russia and author of the bestselling Trotsky, Lenin and Comrades. Drawing on a wealth of unexplored …
Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g. his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted …
With Stendhal is a delightful composite portrait of one of the world's great novelists. Simon Leys introduces and translates into English for the first time three linked pieces: the recollections of Stendhal's famous friend Prosper Mérimée, the …
The Orwell Diaries George Orwell
George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a …
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham Selina Hastings
For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels several of which are now established …
Inheritance Robert Sackville-West
Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives …
Diaghilev And The Golden Age of Ballet Russes 1909 - 1929 Prichard Geoffrey Marsh
Serge Diaghilev (1872 to 1929) was an extraordinarily gifted impresario, curator, director and animator of the arts. He was perfectly at home in the wave of creative energy that pushed theatrical performance to the forefront of the arts in the …
Caravaggio: Painter of Miricles FrancineProse
Francine Prose's life of Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) evokes the genius of this incomparable artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio's use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the …
This extraordinary book had its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about …
Donald Friend Diaries Ian Britain
At age fourteen, Donald Friend declared: 'Have done quite a lot of painting lately, and have made up my mind that I shall be an artist. And I shall be famous!'…
Stephen Fry Memoir Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, and addict, liar, fantasist and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance …
Storyteller The Life of Roald Dahl Donald Sturrock
Roald Dahl pushed children′s literature into new and uncharted territory. More than fifteen years after his death, his popularity around the globe continues to grow, and worldwide sales of his books have now topped 100 million. The man behind the …
The Kings Speech Mark Logue, Peter Conradi
The King’s Speech book forms the basis of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham-Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century – amazingly he was an almost unknown, …
Autobiography of Mark Twain Harriet Elinor Smith
'I've struck it!' Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. 'And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.' Thus, after dozens of false starts and …
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in …
Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the …
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage Hazel Rowley
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's …
The Hare With Amber Eyes Edmund Waal
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they …
Lesley Blanch Inner Landscape Wilder Shores Anne Boston
Lesley Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller. Emotions, she insisted, can be transposed …
Phillip Adams A Man of Ideas Philip Luker
fascinating and insightful biography of Phillip Adams, one of Australia's most most prolific and popular writers, journalists and broadcasters, written with his co-operation. 'He's been around the media for decades, he looks more like a priest …
Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles A J Brown
The remarkable story of the life and work of Australia's most famous modern judge. This biography charts Michael Kirby's extraordinary public life from his first forays as a student politician in the early 1960s, to his appointments as foundation …
Trailblazers Caroline Chisholm to Quentin Bryce susanna De Vries
Trailblazers outlines the lives of extraordinary Australian women who have been pioneers and inspiring role models. From Caroline Chisholm, who changed the history of female migration to Australia, to Mary Gaunt who explored West Africa, …
comprehensive history of cancer - one of the greatest enemies of medical progress and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher …
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER GENERAL NON-FICTION 2011 Washington A Life Ron Chernow
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French …
The Price of Life Nigel Brennan
August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang, brutalised, and kept in isolation and ignorance. The ransom amount is US$3 million; if it's not …
Prime Minister's Literary Award 2011 Non-fiction The Hard Light of Day Rod Moss
Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs to teach painting, he met a married couple who had set up camp in the gully beside his flat. Over the next 25 years, his friendship with Xavier and Petrina Neil and the friendships that …
The Tao of Travel Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, 'The Tao of Travel' …