Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more
Reinventing Emma by Gee Emma
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Emma Gee is one of Australia's acclaimed Inspirational Speakers, offering her thoughts and solutions on client-centred care and resilience through her keynote presentations, workshops and consultancy. With a background in Occupational Therapy and as a Stroke Survivor, Emma is a renowned expert and a liv ...Show more
Rembrandt: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Rembr ...Show more
Finding My Feet: My Story by Hanny Allston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
‘In nothingness, there are only the heartbeats of hope. I vow to myself that I will clamber out of this hole. I will find my feet and flourish.’At 19, Hanny Allston faces a ‘perfect storm’. Her father is terrifyingly ill. Besides his hospital bed, she teeters painfully on crutches after surgery that cou ...Show more
This Is the Fire - What I Say to My Friends about Racism by Don Lemon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this 'vital book for these times' (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only B ...Show more
Discovering Robin Hood - The Life of Joseph Ritson - Gentleman, Scholar and Revolutionary by Stephen Basdeo
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research in the late eighteenth century ensured the survival of the Robin Hood legend. He traveled all over the country looking for an ...Show more
Better To Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia - and the often devastating cost of idealism. It’s the late 1960s, an ...Show more
Joan Crawford - The Essential Biography by Lawrence J. Quirk; William Schoell
$62.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression thirties, to ...Show more
Borderline by Sandie Jessamine
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The story of Sandie, who spent her teen years in Parramatta Girls Home, escaped twice, developed Borderline Personality Disorder but ultimately overcame her circumstances.
Keats - A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry we ...Show more