A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for the author, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles off the east coast of Africa, armed Somali pirates attacked and boarded the freighte ...Show more
Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister.For 18 months he kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage - the ...Show more
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been from the outside looking in; Jay Barbree is the only person whom Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the Armstrong family, Jay Barbree has written th ...Show more
Belle: The True Story Behind the Movie by Paula Byrne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The extraordinary true story behind the film Belle. Beautiful, wealthy and sophisticated, Dido Belle appears, in her famous portrait alongside her 'sister' and companion Lady Elizabeth Murray, a vision of eighteenth-century aristocratic virtue. But Dido Belle was no normal eighteenth century Lady, and t ...Show more
Hard Choices: Hillary Rodham Clinton by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this perso ...Show more
Hope in a Ballet Shoe by Michaela & Elaine DePrince
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, Michaela DePrince witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels and her mother dies of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela is mistreated because of her skin condition, vitiligo. But there is hope: the Harmattan wind blows a magazin ...Show more
The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, ...Show more
The Fighter - A True Story by Arnold Zable
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen exudes vigour. His life force is strong. It ani ...Show more
Our Vietnam Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much har ...Show more
Different Kind of Daughter: My Double Life Disguised as a Boy to Defy the Taliban by Maria Toorpakai Wazir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfilment and genuine personhood' ...Show more
Hell to Happiness: A Concentration Camp Childhood to a Life of Abundance by Patricia Dennis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Living on Borrowed time will sharpen your appreciation for life. This book is a true story full of passion, hope and inspiration. International author Patricia Dennis shares what it was like to spend three and a half years growing up in a Japanese Concentration Camp in the Philippines. Having miraculous ...Show more
Voices From the Air: The ABC Correspondents Who Told the Stories of Australians at War by Tony Hill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An untold tale of Australians at war: the first ABC war correspondents and how radio broadcast from the battlefields to those at home waiting for news. With the outbreak of the Second World War, a new breed of reporters joined the ranks of war correspondents - and through the reach and power of radio Au ...Show more