I Am Melba
Ann Blainey

$32.95 (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... More »

Van Diemen's Land: A History
James Boyce

$49.95 (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... More »

An Exacting Heart: The Story Of Hephzibah Menuhin
Jacqueline Kent

$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... More »

A Family History Of Smoking
Andrew Riemer

$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 »

American Journeys
Don Watson

$49.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

Only in America, the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything, are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys in 2005 and 2006, acclaimed author Don Watson set out... More »