Young Hawke: The Making of a Larrikin by David Day
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, Australia's iconic larrikin PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds new light on the early years of a political legend. David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a journey ...Show more
Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'T ...Show more
Tiny: A Memoir About Love, Letting Go and a Very Small House by Louise Southerden
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tiny is a memoir by award-winning travel writer Louise Southerden about her quest to create a simpler way of life by building her very own tiny house. In her successful career as a travel writer, Louise found herself staying in ever new and exotic locations, but while staying in a tiny house in Norway, ...Show more
FAKE TV tie-in edition: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies by Stephanie Wood
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now a Paramount+ TV series, inspired by the book, starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham. A powerful, richly layered investigative story for our times, drawing on the personal stories of the author and other women who have been drawn into relationships based on duplicity and false hope. When Stephanie ...Show more
Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance With America by Yves Rees
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk. A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing s ...Show more
John Berger and Me by Nikos Papastergiadis
32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the late English writer and art critic John Berger. His ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker - and the star of her show' ROBERT McCRUM, Independent 'Our naughtiest national treasure . . . famo ...Show more
Profiles in Hope: Fifteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life by John Brogden
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sixteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life.Every day, nine Australians take their own lives. Eighteen years ago, John Brogden came very close to adding his name to these statistics. But John survived and, since his recovery, he has become a pass ...Show more
My Brother Jaz by Gideon Haigh
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it fe ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza by Samah Sabawi
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one ...Show more