A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Paris Spleen - Dual-Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire; Martin Sorrell (Translator); Maurice Stang (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sens ...Show more
The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Dragons and Serpents - Earth Mysteries and the Time of Change by Stefan Broennle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Explores the importance of dragon and serpent energies and symbols from prehistory to the present around the world. Revealing how dragons and serpents are deeply embedded in the story of humankind and the Earth itself, from prehistory to the present, Stefan Broennle takes us on a journey through the ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei
$39.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. Within this deluxe edition is an exclusive, limited-edition art print, signed by Ai We ...Show more
Show Up: Mindset, motivation and creating your dream life by Tammy Hembrow
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
The hugely popular fitness influencer offers a motivational guide to owning your life, balancing your priorities, achieving whatever you set your mind to and bringing your best self to it all.'Whatever dreams you may have, if you want them enough, and you show up and back yourself, you can create the li ...Show more
Layers - A Memoir by Pénélope Bagieu; Montana Kane (Translator); Pénélope Bagieu
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
Following the Eisner-award winning Brazen, Pénélope Bagieu pens her first autobiographical work in this hilarious and bitter sweet graphic memoir. Pénélope Bagieu never thought she'd publish a graphic memoir. But when she dusted off her old diaries (no, really--this book is based on her actual diaries), ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography, True Crime, History
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more