Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Mud House: How Four Friends Built a Place in the Australian Bush by Richard Glover
$18.00 AUD
$24.99 (27% off)
Category: Biography
Four friends. One block of land. No power tools. 'One day,' Philip said, 'I'd like to build something bigger ...Like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go.' It was just an idea. then it started to take shape. In this frank, funny and thought-provoking memoir ...Show more
Try Hard: Tales from the Life of a Needy Overachiever (Extra Sass Edition): Tales from the Life of a Needy Overachiever (Extra Sass Edition) by Em Rusciano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now with extra sass - three fabulous new chapters - the bestselling laugh-out-loud memoir of one of Australia's most adored performers on stage and radio.Funny and feisty, Em Rusciano's insights into her world of mayhem, marriage and motherhood are a laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud balm for the soul.From h ...Show more
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. slight creasing on spine SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom ...Show more
Head Over Heels by Sam Bailey; Jenny Bailey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of nineteen, a young farmer, Sam Bailey, miscalculated a bend in the road, overturned his ute and became a quadriplegic. After months of struggle, he learned how to resume his life as a farmer, running a sheep and cattle property in northwest New South Wales. Then he met and fell in love with ...Show more
The Brilliant Outsider by Robert Wainwright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first full-length biography of George Ingle Finch - maverick Australian mountaineer, scientist, concert pianist and father of actor Peter Finch. George Ingle Finch, mountaineer, soldier, scientist, rebellious spirit, boy from the bush, was in his day one of the most famous men in the world. In 1922 ...Show more
The Summer of '82 by Dave O'Neil
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Do you remember finishing your last Year 12 exam and wondering what to do next? Do you remember waiting for your results and being stuck in limbo? Do you remember going to gigs, forming a band, getting bottles thrown at you by skinheads, making a bomb and getting arrested? Do you remember hitchhiking t ...Show more
Up Until Now by Petrea King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Petrea King is one of those rare Australians who have changed the country for the better.' Richard Glover As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending many years in and out of hospital and undergoing numerous operations. After leaving school at fourteen, she worked as a secretary until ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is onw of life's glorious adventures.' Nineteen australian midwives share their incredible stories with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthur. Midwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the most challenging and reward ...Show more
Grant and I by Robert Forster
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Grant and I is the story of the friendship and collaboration of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who gave Australia The Go-Betweens, one of our best and most influential bands. The 1980s songwriting partnership of McLennan/Forster was a little like an Australian Lennon/McCartney. The pair wrote all t ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more
Life on Air by Sir David Attenborough
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades, and in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places he has visited. His first job - after Cambridge ...Show more