Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more
The Boy with Two Lives by Abbas Kazerooni
$15.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: On Two Feet and Wings
When ten-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life - having just fled conscription into the Iranian army and survived almost three months alone in Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for a visa - he does not know that his troubles have only just begun.Abbas's cousin packs him off to boarding school, a ...Show more
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
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and ...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
The Bulldog Track - A Grandson's Story of an Ordinary Man's War and Survival on the Other Kokoda Trail by Peter Phelps
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival. March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Breaking Ranks: An Amazing True Story of a Cop on the Line by Joe Noonan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Joe Noonans 10 years in the Victoria Police culminated in being seconded onto the Investigation Team for the double slaying of two young policemen in Walsh Street South Yarra. The 1980s in Victoria were some of the most tumultuous years in Australias policing history. These stories give a vivid insight ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Anne Frank by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives in Graphics
Great Lives in Graphics is an innovative and exciting series which gives kids a new way to learn about men and women whose exploits and deeds have changed the world. Each book captures and reveals the incredible discoveries and achievements of the world’s most famous artist’s, writers, musicians, scient ...Show more
Second Life of Tiger Woods by Michael Bamberger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Written by a New York Times bestselling author and reporter who "knows the world of professional golf...like few others" (The Wall Street Journal) comes "the most insightful and evenhanded book written yet about one of the signature athletes of the last twenty-five years" (Booklist, starred review) deta ...Show more
Snakes and Ladders by Angela Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Angela Williams' incredible memoir of going to prison, getting out and getting clean, then the beauacratic bungle that sent her back to prison again.
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid con ...Show more