Kieran Read: My Story by Kieran Read
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As Kieran Read calls time on his distinguished New Zealand career at the end of the Rugby World Cup, this is the open and honest life story of one of rugby's greatest players, a legendary All Black and a two-time World Cup winner. Kieran Read first played for the All Blacks as a 23-year-old in 2008 and ...Show more
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
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony, Katja Willemsen
18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Fran oise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne, Fran oise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and eve ...Show more
Every Conceivable Way: One Couple's Extraordinary Journey to Parenthood over Nine Years and Three Continents by Despina Meris
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
New Yorker Despina Meris had always imagined her future with children in it. After falling in love and moving to Australia in her early twenties and battling cancer at age thirty, she and her husband Bill finally settled down to baby-making - only to have miscarriage after miscarriage. They tried IVF, w ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
'Cherry' Ingram - The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms by Naoko Abe
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Sympathetic and engrossing... a portrait of great charm and sophistication' Guardian The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived unt ...Show more
We Are Speaking in Code - Living on the Fringe with Grace, Humour and Lucid Rage by Tanya Vavilova
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
We Are Speaking in Code explores difference and deviance in the everyday through the lenses of mental illness, queerness and migrant identity. Weaving personal anecdotes with reflections on trauma, psychology and contemporary relationships this collection of essays catalogues, reconsiders and unravels i ...Show more
Warhol - A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik
69.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Andy Warhol presented himself as being as shallow as critics accused his famous Campbell's Soup can paintings of being. His public persona was droll; he claimed that he silkscreened because it was easier than painting, and that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame in the future. But who was Andy ...Show more
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Greta Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress- her imperilled future on a rapidly h ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family by Yan Lianke
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A powerful and intimate memoir about childhood, family and politics during the Cultural Revolution, from one of China's most important contemporary voices. With his quick wit and gift for metaphor, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his home of the 1960s and early 70s in rural Henan Province. Yan's is a ...Show more
Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more