Educated by Tara Westover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...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
Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isa ...Show more
The Simple Life - How I Found Home by Sarah Beeny
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home...Throughout her life, Sarah Beeny has been obsessed with the idea of home. From her childhood growing up in a countryside cottage to renovating her very first flat in London to restoring a stately home in Yorkshire, she has n ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens. Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and ...Show more
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they ...Show more
How We Live Now - Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink--on either end of a bar--with the owner. ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following th ...Show more