In the Shadow of Greatness: Five Remarkable Women and the Men of Genius They Served by Michael Menager
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book features the lives of five strong, creative, intelligent women who dedicated their lives to serving the genius of others. Among fascinating friends, dramatic historic events and transcendent achievements, these women chose saintly self-effacement, emotional suffering, loneliness, and personal ...Show more
How to Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. He had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, films, video games and T ...Show more
Forged from Silver Dollar by Li Feng
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - success demands two things: unconditional sacrifice and absolute mental focus. Finally breaking free of her mother's overbearing clutches and fleeing to Sydney as an adult, Li struggled to make sense of her own lost c ...Show more
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, suffering serious head injuries. He was left in a permanent vegetative state. For the next eight years ...Show more
My Life in the Ragtrade: An Honest Snapshot of the Golden Days of the Australian Clothing Trade by Fred Wilkinson
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"My Life in the Ragtrade" is the story of the famous Australian brand names, many developed from humble beginnings yet made in clothing factories employing thousands of people, and the grand retail stores and clothing shops that stocked those brands. In "My Life in the Ragtrade," author Fred Wilkinson t ...Show more
Without My Mum by Leigh Van Der Horst
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Perhaps the only thing that can impact and shape a woman's life with the same power as her mother's love and guidance is her mother's death. In Without My Mum, Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer in 2008. She invites us on a journey that is a ...Show more
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Here is the heartwarming true story of Dr. James Herriot, a country veterinarian whose unique courage, warmth, and natural storytelling ability have captured the heart of American in a very special way! "A classic of its kind...'miraculous' is not too strong a word!" -- "Chicago Times Book World .""Wa ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
Elvis and Me by Gillian Wills
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescue each other in this inspirational memoir about second chances. At 56 years of age, Gillian Wills bought her first horse on a whim. Elvis was emaciated, scarred, unruly, saddle-phobic and imbued with attitude. However, she sensed in him the remnants of ...Show more
Big Blue Sky by Peter Garrett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Peter Garrett's life so far has been deeply felt and fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, fierce intelligence and a questing and creative spirit, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives...From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney ...Show more
Betsy and the Emperor: The True Story of Napoleon, a Pretty Girl, a Regency Rake, and an Australian Colonial Misadventure by Anne Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a loc ...Show more
Skimpy: Outrageous True Tales of Crocodiles, Snakes and Pulling Beers in the Outback by Kellie Arrowsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Kellie Arrowsmith was a country girl whose idea of a hairdo was tying a ponytail whenever she wanted to go horse riding. But in her early twenties she left her sleepy hometown of Albury on the NSW/Victoria border for the bright lights of the Gold Coast, and soon found herself working in a succession of ...Show more