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
Holy See, Unholy Me! (P.O.D) by Tim Fischer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As the first Australian Ambassador to the Holy See Tim Fischer is is the unique position of being able to tell what it's really like in the seat of power in Rome. Here he reflects on his time in the Vatican, the details which made up his life, the protocols, the people and also on the role that religion ...Show more
Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1909, the largest department store in London's West End, designed and built from scratch, opened in Oxford Street in a glorious burst of publicity. The mastermind behind the facade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman, risk-taker, dandy and one of the greatest showm ...Show more
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Opp ...Show more
Long Walk to Freedom (FTI) by Nelson Mandela
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Category: Biography
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Nelson Mandela became the democratically elected, first black president ...Show more
Survival Guide for Life by Bear Grylls
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Life in the wild teaches us invaluable lessons. Extreme situations force us to seize opportunities, face up to dangers and rely on our instincts. But living a purpose-driven, impactful life can be an even greater challenge...In "A Survival Guide for Life", Bear Grylls shares the hard-earned lessons he's ...Show more
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
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Category: Biography
At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At 12, she was anorexic. By the time she was 18, she'd been hospitalized five times, once in a mental asylum. Her doctors and her parents had given up on her; they were watching her die. But Marya d ...Show more
Aung San Suu Kyi: A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Christophe Loviny
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Placed under house arrest for more than fifteen years, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international icon for her courage and the personal sacrifices she has made in the struggle against Burma's military regime. With her passion for freedom and human rights, she stands alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Ma ...Show more
Angela's Ashes: A memoir of childhood by Frank McCourt
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Category: Biography
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father ...Show more
Outback Heroines by Sue Williams; Georgie Parker (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Horse-whispering, crocodile-hunting and single-handedly changing an 80-kilo flat tyre on a road train in 40-degree heat...there is nothing these modern-day outback women can't do. But when it comes to hardship and heartbreak, they've endured far more than their fair share. Living and working in some of ...Show more
As Luck Would Have it by Sir Derek Jacobi
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Category: Biography
Star of stage, screen and television, and one of only two people to be awarded two Knighthoods, Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Britain's most distinguished actors. 'If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do.' The world of theatre could not have been further from Derek's childhood: an ...Show more
Sister Mother Husband Dog by Delia Ephron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of unforgettable, moving and provocative essays. The emotional lynchpin is the author's stirring, eloquent response to the death of Nora Ephron, her older sister and frequent writing companion. In 'Sister', she deftly captures the ...Show more