Challenge Accepted! by Celeste Barber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman - not to ment ...Show more
The Grit in the Pearl - The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993) was an international celebrity in her youth, adored by millions. But in 1963, the year of the Profumo Affair, the 11th Duke of Argyll shocked the country when he alleged that his adulterous wife had slept with more than 80 men behind his back. He produced a set of ...Show more
Queens - Women Who Ruled, from Ancient Egypt to Buckingham Palace by Editors of Abbeville Editors of Abbeville Press
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Tiny Folio Ser.
This tiny yet majestic volume introduces some 250 queens from around the world--those who inherited the throne by birth or marriage, or who seized it for themselves. It begins with queens of the ancient world and ends with those ruling today, encompassing both household names, like Cleopatra VII and Eli ...Show more
Austen Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quick-fire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose ...Show more
Two Mums and a Dad by TOBY ROBERTS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours wondering if this mob had mista ...Show more
The 99th Koala by Kailas Wild
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In last summer's devastating fires, Kangaroo Island lost half of its koala population, with many more left injured and starving. This is the inspiring and sometimes confronting story of someone who went to help and ended up a koala dad. When Kailas Wild - arborist by trade and conservationist at heart ...Show more
Life at the Bottom of the Blender by NAOMI HART
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Naomi Hart flew from Sydney to New York to study musical theatre as a twenty-two year-old, she planned to be away for only two years. Little did she know that two years would eventually turn into eight and much of it would be spent working for the New York Mafia... As a young uni student Naomi flew ...Show more
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
Duke: 100 Chapters in the Life of Prince Philip by IAN LLOYD
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An accessible and witty celebration of the life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke is a miscellany of facts and key moments in the life of the man the Queen has called her 'strength and stay' over the past seventy-two years. Rather than a typical biography it intersperses longer chapters on k ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more
The Real Roald Dahl by Nadia Cohen
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl than met the eye.His fascinating life began in Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager who delighted in defying authority before joining t ...Show more