May 2008 Biographies
Swimming In A Sea Of Death
$27.95 (Paperback book / Miegunyah Press )
Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. More »
Stanley And Sophie
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
A wise, wry gorgeous book about two border terriers—by the keenly intelligent, winning writer who lost her heart to them.
“I fell in love with a prideful, tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches hi... More »
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The Lucy Family Alphabet
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she despised them, Judith was shocked. Sure, she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they... More »
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A Family History Of Smoking
$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
A Family History of Smoking is a compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From great-grandfather David, who saw his family's fortunes decline with the gr... More »
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Letter To D: History Of A Love Affair
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Philosopher Andre Gorz was a friend and contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre – but this surprise bestseller is an intimate, intensely romantic extended love letter, addressed to his terminally ill wife. One year after the bo... More »
My Friend The Fanatic: Travels With An Indonesian Islamist
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
In October 2002, Sadanand Dhume found himself in a place most foreigners were trying to flee -Bali. Powerful explosions the previous night had ripped through two tourist nightclubs, killing more than 200 people. That eve... More »
Open Road The Global Journey Of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama for the last three decades. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama's position. Though he has brought the id... More »
Plaster And Paint: John Colquhoun Orthopaedic Surgeon And Hispatient Joyce Mcgrath Portrait Painter
$39.95 (Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub )
Two lives preserved in a biography: John Colquhoun, orthopaedic surgeon, and Joyce McGrath, Arts librarian and portrait painter. John’s life began in Scotland with the gifts of intellect and mastery. He was robust yet ge... More »
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My Reading Life
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Welcome to my library. Dog-eared paperbacks falling to pieces. Second-hand books from the stores and barrows of four continents. Modern first editions, some inscribed ...
In My Reading Life, a personal investigation into... More »