My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me by Boris Mihailovic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed, then this book is for you. My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about frien ...Show more
Journey to Horseshoe Bend by Theodor George Henry Strehlow
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Journey to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow, author of the monumental Songs of Central Australia. It describes the final days of his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow, head of the ...Show more
Universal Man - The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport-Hines
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling and award-winning author of 'An English Affair', a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice - over the course of two W ...Show more
Redeemed: Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding by Heather King
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
After decades of living on the edge, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career as an upwardly mobile lawyer. As someone who had reached middle age "never believing in much of anything,"she found herself in the last place she thought she'd end up: t ...Show more
The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, ...Show more
At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of Motorcycles and Other Drugs by Boris Mihailovic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABC His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politicially incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of ...Show more
Ken Done: a Life Coloured In by Ken Done
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An impressionistic and exuberant memoir by Australia's best-loved artist. Ken Done has an extraordinary place in the hearts of Australians - we've all worn or decorated our homes with his artwork. His vivid, optimistic images are part of our collective consciousness and have helped define us to the wor ...Show more
William MorrisRomantic to Revolutionary by E. P. Thompson
$56.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris—the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer—who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led him to c ...Show more
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Barbara Leaming
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For almost six decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has fascinated people worldwide. The subject of numerous books and thousands of articles, her life has probably been documented in millions of words. And yet, there has always remained something mysterious, something private about this very public woman ...Show more
Letters From Isobel Hen House CEO by Anne Stuckey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Isobel, a proud Australorp, is at the top of the Hen House ladder. As CEO, she started with 50, and now manages around 3000 'girls', the wilful free-range hens who live at Berrima Ridge, a 100-acre farm in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laborato ...Show more