The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion by Cory Leadbeater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cory Leadbeater grew up in a working-class town in New Jersey, one of three brothers, a quiet kid looking to find refuge from the rougher parts of his childhood in Dickens, Austen and Frost. Almost a decade ago when he was just starting at Columbia's MFA program, still living at home, he received an of ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pu ...Show more
If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life: The Korean Bestseller by Rhee Kun Hoo
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*THE LIFE-AFFIRMING KOREAN BESTSELLER* 'I hope my book will give readers around the world a glimpse into Korean culture and will impact their lives, guiding and comforting them, even half as much as writing it changed mine.' - Rhee Kun Hoo If You Live to One Hundred, You Might As Well Be Happy captivate ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Witty and sweet, and perfectly captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary childhood' Andrew Miller 'Tiffany's work is like you look out the window and there it is - the sun dancing in the sky . . . My Family And Other Rock Stars will make you grow wings. Get out there now and buy it. The ghost of ...Show more
The Secret Life of Flying: What really happens when you travel by air by Jeremy Burfoot
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How does a plane stay up in the air? Does the Mile High Club actually exist? When you flush the toilet, where does it all go? Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain Jeremy Burfoot. With more than 35 years of airline experience, the former Qantas pilot presents an ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, St ...Show more
Untold Truths: A Journey to A 'Will of Courage' by Selina Win Pe
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a story of extraordinary resilience. It is about one persons irresistible dedication to rural and remote communities, and to supporting local, right across Australia. Selina Win Pe has a heart of gold that carries so much love for so many others. Her commitment to bush people is endless and enti ...Show more
We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest by Nemonte Nenquimo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I'm here to tell you my story, which is also the story of my people and the story of this forest.' Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. Age 14, she left the forest for t ...Show more
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it by Alex Noble
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn’t about the hand you’re dealt, but how you choose to play it. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his l ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more