Lawson (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the ho ...Show more
The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece by Horst Krüger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of Alone in Berlin and Stoner - the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany.'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' - Sunday Times 'An unsparing, hone ...Show more
Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A fascinating portrait of one of Australia's most influential women Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye - and is the longest-serving woman in Australia's House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives ...Show more
The Crown in Crisis - Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establish ...Show more
Childhood: Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Shannon Burns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn't last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks later, she tracked him down and said she was pregnant. So he moved back in with her and they prepared themselves for parenthood. Eleven months later I was born. By the time my father discovered the decepti ...Show more
Beneath Whose Hand by R. Williams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
R.M Williams, bushman, grazier, folk hero, raconteur-in fact one of the great legends of our time. This is his story.He left home in his teens and went bush. For months he trekked through the deserts and ranges of Central Australia as the camel-man of a two-man expedition. He then worked as a drover. Th ...Show more
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider by Mohammad Chowdhury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A jo ...Show more
The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-cultureThe Dead Don't Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall's return from a near-suicidal depression, and his dete ...Show more
The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days by Kate Holden
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Romantic describes Kate's journey from Melbourne to Rome and Naples, from romance and sex to love, from loss to understanding - and back again. Follow-up to In My Skin, this is a book about everything from sex with strangers to the heartbreaking realities of being in love. It's about the pride of fi ...Show more
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the time he was three or four, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, much to his distress, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits - such as a tendency to obsessively dismantle radios and dig f ...Show more
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars by Martha Long
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Never again will I let myself plunge so low, it nearly cost my life then ended in the mad house,' Martha vows, as she sits back in the taxi wrapping the fur coat around her. A young Russian monk from the mental hospital has proposed marriage. Then she receives a shock. A letter from Father Ralph Fitzge ...Show more
Madam Secretary (PB) by Madeleine Albright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic ...Show more