Everything to Live For The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Everything to Live For is the story of one young woman's survival against extraordinary odds, a testament to the human spirit. In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would cha ...Show more
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders - the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, h ...Show more
Return to Life by Jim B. Tucker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In this collection of real-life stories, Jim B. Tucker, a notable US medical scientist investigates children's experiences of past lives. We are all familiar with Buddhist tales of reincarnation, but this book focuses on ordinary kids in suburban homes across the US and elsewhere. In Return to Life, Tuc ...Show more
John Adams by David McCullough
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adam ...Show more
Art of Sleeping Alone by Sophie Fontanel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
At the age of twenty-seven, after many years of having (and, for the most part, enjoying) an active sex life, beloved French author, journalist, editor, and fashion blogger Sophie Fontanel decided she wanted to take a break. Despite having it all-a glamorous job, plenty of dates and boyfriends, stylish ...Show more
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. His ...Show more
Wife and Baggage to Follow by Rachel Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Eye-opening first-hand accounts from Australian diplomats' wives, from the founding of the diplomatic service till recent decades. Adventure, hardship, war, opportunity, these are the fish-out-of-water stories of intelligent, dedicated women raising families in far-flung corners of the globe. They were ...Show more
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: good
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Call Me Sasha by Geena Leigh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At just fifteen years old, Geena had no choice but to leave home. Without an education or any real options, she found herself being lured into the sex industry by the promise of big money and the validation of strangers, she turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of day to day life as a call girl ...Show more
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
$31.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott ...Show more
Storyteller by Zoe Daniel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Zoe Daniel is the ABC's South-East Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok with her husband and young family. She reports on nine countries across Southeast Asia filing copy and stories for TV, radio, online and social media. She was the Africa correspondent from 2005 until 2007 and spent 2009 covering the ...Show more
Locked In: One Man's Miraculous Escape from the Terrifying Confines of Locked-in Syndrome by Richard Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't moving at all. Couldn't move at all.' I ...Show more