Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good by Aminata Conteh-Biger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Rising Heart will never leave you; searing, powerful, disturbing, hopeful.' The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. In 1999, Sierra Leone teenager Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped from her father's ar ...Show more
Anna Meares Now: Sometimes the End of the Race Is Only the Beginning by Anna Meares
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From 2004 to 2016, Anna Meares was one of Australia's greatest and most popular Olympians, a winner of two gold medals and medals at four Olympics. She overcame a broken neck to win silver at the 2008 Beijing Games. She is an inspiration not just because of her sporting achievements, but for way she ans ...Show more
Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexander
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Once I was the poster boy for corporate success, but now I'm crashing through the bush in a storm in search of a missing pig. How the hell did we end up here? Todd and Jeff have had enough of the city. Sick of the daily grind and workaday corporate shenanigans, they throw caution to the wind and buy 100 ...Show more
Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
$54.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a ...Show more
Rose QC - The Remarkable Story of Rose Heilbron by Hilary Heilbron
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Re-issued in paperback to mark the centenary of legislation enabling women to enter the professions for the first time in the United Kingdom.Rose Heilbron QC (later Dame Rose Heilbron), was an English barrister, who became a world famous icon of the 1950s and 1960s. She was one of the two first women Ki ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea. Scrambling into a longboat, Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North Quee ...Show more
How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Ashley persuades her new husband Steve to leave snowy Canada and join her for a year Down Under, she looks forward to an easy transition. After all,Australia’s just Canada with more sunshine and strange animals, right? But they soon discover things aren’t so simple. Steve struggles to settle and A ...Show more
Becoming Dr. Seuss - Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones
$31.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites becau ...Show more
Back, after the Break (PB) by Osher Gunsberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Osher Gunsberg, one of Australia's most loved celebrities, opens up in a powerful, dark, funny and heartwrenching memoir about life, love and living with mental illness. It's hard to remember a time when Osher Gunsberg (or Andrew G as he was then) wasn't on TV - he's just always been there, looking at e ...Show more
Spies and Stars: MI5, Showbusiness and Me by Charlotte Bingham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. Now she has had the bad luck to fall in love with Harry, a handsome if frustrated young actor, who has also been press-ganged into the family business, acting as one ...Show more
Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French by John von Sothen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An American falls in love and becomes a Parisian - just not the way he imagined. In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have be ...Show more
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Canons Ser.
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.