The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton; Lara Love Hardin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity."--Archbishop Desmo ...Show more
The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary the story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world's medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest and most isolated people.
The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The international bestseller that brought Trump's long history of racism, mafia ties, and shady business dealings into the limelight. Now with a new introduction and epilogue. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the ...Show more
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical f ...Show more
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor by Matt Latimer
$52.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.
Last Tango in Toulouse: Torn Between Two Loves by Mary Moody
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The year of her fiftieth birthday, gardening writer Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. Her book about these experiences, 'Au Revoir', struck a chord with tens of thousands of readers. Yet those experiences were to mark a beginning rathe ...Show more
Safe Passage by IDA COOK
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Safe Passage brings back into print the life story of Ida Cook, one of Britain's best-loved romance novelists of the 20th century. In this gripping memoir, Cook tells the story of how she and her sister, Louise, transported Jews out of Germany in the years leading up to World War II.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, p ...Show more
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement by Virginia Lloyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At 32, Virginia Lloyd finally meets the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, only to discover that he is dying from cancer. When John dies just two years later, as well as handling her own grief, Virginia must battle the chronic rising damp in the house they shared. And so, in her first yea ...Show more
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog – A Funny and Heartbreaking Worldwide Bestseller by John Grogan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT MOVED DOG LOVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING OWEN WILSON AND JENNIFER ANISTON** 'A book with intense appeal . . . tenderly follows its subject from sunrise to sunset' New York Times 'Not just a funny dog story . . . It's a universal st ...Show more
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby : Long Summers With My Dad by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
William McInnes is a talented writer and a natural storyteller. A tail-end baby boomer, he recalls summer holidays that seemed to go on forever, when he and his mates would walk down to fish in the bay; a time when the Aussie battler stood as the local Labor candidate and looked out for his mates; and a ...Show more