Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy w ...Show more
Endgame by Omid Scobie
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The new book from bestselling author Omid Scobie shedding light on the Royal Family, with unique insight and exclusive access.On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II's passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world's most famous family, and s ...Show more
The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch by Brendan Atkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For lovers of natural history, this is the first book to explore Allan Riverstone McCulloch’s scientific genius, artistic talents and his crucial role in the development of the Australian Museum.Allan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925) was a leading scientist and talented illustrator, the Australian Museu ...Show more
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, a ...Show more
Diamonds and Dust by Sheryl McCorry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sheryl McCorry grew up in Arnhem Land carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18, Broome beckoned, and it was there that - only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank - she locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ende ...Show more
Young Hawke 10 Copy Pack by Day, David A
$599.90 AUD
Category: Biography
10 x 9780000540317 Young Hawke
Flinders (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a p ...Show more
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) (HB) by Viktor E Frankl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘Epic, moving and important’ Robert Harris From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener w ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more
Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen by Christopher McDougall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's great ...Show more
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more