Broomstick: Personal Reflections by Leonie Kramer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
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K9 Cops: Police Dogs of the World by Nigel Allsopp
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this fascinating book, Nigel Allsopp lifts the lid on the world of police dogs, examining the vital roles they play both in Australia and around the world. Despite the numerous high-tech devices now available to law-enforcement officials, 'K9's - as they're known in the trade - remain an indispensabl ...Show more
Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somalian Woman Changed 90,000 Lives by Dr. Hawa Abdi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of th ...Show more
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his ...Show more
In Stockmen's Footsteps by Jane Grieve
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jane Grieve was born and raised on a farm on the Darling Downs in Queensland. She grew up with the wind in her hair and the rich black Darling Downs soil between her barefoot toes, her vivid imagination captivated by the tales of her Colonial forebears and the romantic notion of Australia's outback. Fro ...Show more
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jenna Miscavige Hill was born into the Church of Scientology and grew up strictly adhering to its beliefs and practices. But aged twenty-two she made a daring break. Now, for the first time, this insider pierces the veil of secrecy that has shrouded Scientology - a religion that has been the subject of ...Show more
Kitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton by Janet Butler
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Kitty’s War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out ...Show more
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and successful. You would be charmed by her if you met her, might even be seduced by her. You would not realise that she is studying you to find your flaws, that she is ruthlessly manipulative, has no empathy and do ...Show more
Bush Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. They patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive, they drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are no days off. All th ...Show more
The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making by David Esterly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Awestruck by the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in a London church, David Esterly chose to dedicate his life to the art - its physical control, intricate beauty and intellectual demands. Forty years later, he is the foremost practitioner of Gibbons's forgotten technique, which revolutionised orna ...Show more
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman
$68.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in ...Show more
Take Your Best Shot The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Specials
Following from her successful biography The Making of Julia Gillard, here Jacqueline Kent analyses the tumultuous term in office of our first female prime minister. Take Your Best Shot is an insightful and immensely readable account of Gillard's time at the top, and of just how adversarial her environme ...Show more