Toast - The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. 'Toast' is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary ...Show more
Places and Names: Dispatches of War by Elliot Ackerman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'One of the most profound books I have ever read about the real nature of war and the abstract allure of the ideas and the bloodshed that fuels it' Jon Lee A ...Show more
The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood by Phil Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's life begins in small town Australia - Maitland to be precise - but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cas ...Show more
Lawless - A Lawyer's Unrelenting Fight for Justice in One of the World's Most Dangerous Places by Kimberley Motley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary story of Kim Motley, the US woman who became the first foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan.
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act and it was a crucial turning point. Why? Because dissent and morality; 'deviancy' and 'normalcy'; ...Show more
Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life by Valerie Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: An Adventurous Life
At 83 years old, Valerie Taylor has lived a big, bold adventurous life. Born in Australia, Valerie spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
Where the Magic Happens - How We Changed Our Lives and Sailed the World by Caspar Craven; Ranulph Fiennes (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Craven family's inspirational story of their momentous two-year round-the-world sailing trip and how they did it--the vision, the planning, the highs and lows, the teamwork, and ultimately, the adventure of a lifetime. One night when their children were still in diapers, Caspar and Nichola Craven ha ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Transgender
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
A Sceptic's Search for Meaning **NLA** by Mike Willesee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In a career spanning fifty years and thousands of stories, legendary Australian journalist Mike Willesee dared to pose the big questions to the biggest personalities of our time. In his final years, Mike asked the biggest question of all: does God exist? A Sceptic's Search for Meaning is the culminatio ...Show more
Caroline's Dilemma: Fighting a Husband's Final Wishes in Colonial Australia by Bettina Bradbury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of six when her husbanddied in Melbourne in 1865. Having no legal rights herself to the sheep stationin Wimmera, Victoria that her late husband owned, she had great hopes that hersons would inherit it. But that was not to ...Show more
Conversations with Richard Fidler: In-depth Interviews from the Popular ABC Radio Show by Pauline Turnbull
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Takes you into the exceptional lives of people you've never met - people who were living ordinary lives when Something Happened. In this collection of 15 stories, Richard Fidler's skill as an interviewer is revealed as he draws out people's deepest hopes and fears, and their stories of ingenuity, failur ...Show more