The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2008 Non-fiction
I Am Melba
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age.
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell showed musical promise and dreamed of fame, but her father ha... Buy or find out more →
Van Diemen's Land: A History
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book James Boyce shows how the convict... Buy or find out more →
An Exacting Heart: The Story Of Hephzibah Menuhin
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Hephzibah Menuhin had a musical gift most people only dream of. Her refusal to be defined by it led her to reinvent herself not once, but twice in her remarkable life.
Born in 1920 in San Francisco she was, like her worl... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →