On My Knees: A Memoir by Periel Aschenbrand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On My Knees is Periel Aschenbrand's seriously funny follow-up to her debut memoir The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own. At the beginning of On My Knees, we find Periel chain-smoking her days away on a plastic-covered couch, watching reruns of Law & Order while she squats in her deceased grandmother's ap ...Show more
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and ...Show more
Changing Gears: In Search of a Simpler Life by Greg Foyster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Greg Foyster wakes one day and realises his job in advertising is hopelessly at odds with how he wants to live. Looking for inspiration, he and his partner Sophie decide to cycle from Melbourne to Far North Queensland (via Tasmania, naturally) scouting out ways to live more simply. On the road, the coup ...Show more
Bert Hinkler by Grantlee Kieza
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert's life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full-blooded biography about one of Australia's most astonishing sons. He's all but been lost from history but once ...Show more
Carrier Attack Darwin 1942: The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor by Tom Lewis
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
When the Pacific war began it was a case of "when not if" Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before, hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in ...Show more
Standing on My Own Two Feet by Clare Sultmann
$28.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Pinned under 10-tonne truck for 37 horrific minutes, Clare Sultmanns doctors were not optimistic—at risk of losing her legs, and her life, Clare set out on an extraordinary journey to recovery. But the young woman’s determination to survive was overshadowed by doubt, and fear: “Would I ever walk again? ...Show more
Farewell to the East End (Call the Midwife #3) by Jennifer Worth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: CALL THE MIDWIFE 3
The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series. This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tube ...Show more
A Bit Mental: One Man's Mission to Lilo the Waikato & Live More Awesome by Jimi Hunt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In an effort to conquer his depression, Jimi Hunt decided to travel the length of New Zealand's longest river...on a lilo. Jimi Hunt is a man who has spent most of his life doing ridiculous things for his own amusement. Things like building the country's biggest waterslide; playing golf through the stre ...Show more
Shane Jacobson: The Long Road to Overnight Success by Shane Jacobson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the star of the film Kenny, the story of his long road to overnight success. After the film 'Kenny' catapulted him to national and international fame, actor, writer, producer Shane Jacobson was told by people that he had a talent for acting. Which was great news as he'd been on the stage since the ...Show more
A Smile For My Parents by Heather Henderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edited and published Letters to My Daughter, a collection of letters written by Menzies to Heather throughou ...Show more
Mandela: A Film and Historical Companion by PQ Blackwell Ltd.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's a movie tie-in unlike any other: a combination of dramatic recreations and history, featuring film stills alongside archival photographs of actual events; a narrative text drawn from Long Walk to Freedom, complemented by Mandela's own words and artefacts from his personal papers and archive, and fi ...Show more
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spent a lifetime making the impossible a reality. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space ...Show more