Bandaging the Blitz by Phyll MacDonald Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfill her dream to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard work, ne ...Show more
Spirit High : The Mick Parker Story by James Knight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 21 May 2009, after weeks of gruelling climbing, Mick Parker reached the summit of Makalu in the Himalaya, 8463 metres above sea level. He was now a veteran of the '8000ers club' - those elite adventurers who have scaled the world's highest mountains. What's more, as with all his climbs, he'd done it ...Show more
Wild Boys: A Parent's Story of Tough Love by Helena Pastor
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
For too long, Helena, a mother of four boys, has allowed her eldest son to call the shots. Even though seventeen-year-old Joey - an early school leaver teetering on the wrong side of the tracks - no longer lives in the family home, she does his washing, cooks his meals, hands over money for his grocerie ...Show more
What's It All About? by Cilla Black
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Category: Biography
Celebrating 60 years of life and 40 years of show biz, this is the long awaited autobiography of a British legend. Cilla Black is without doubt one of Britain's most treasured personalities. Generations have grown up with Cilla's music, TV shows, and performances. But how much do we really know abou ...Show more
The Art of Free Travel: A frugal family adventure by Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Patrick, Meg and their family had built a happy, sustainable life in regional Victoria. But in late 2013, they found themselves craving an adventure: a road trip. But theirs was a road trip with a difference. With Zephyr (10), Woody (1) and Zero their Jack Russell, they set off on an epic 6,000km year-l ...Show more
Schools of Fish Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2015 by Sampson, Alan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What happens when a very strict principal of a state high school has to deal with one of the most troublesome students he has ever had...his own son? When the two unexpectedly find a common interest, the change to their relationship alters significantly. Both learn the hard way that the best education i ...Show more
Doujon's Heart by Greg Callaghan
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Category: Biography
When 20-year-old Australian Doujon Zammit was bashed by bouncers on a Greek island in July 2008, his tragic story made headlines in both Australia and Greece. Doujon had sustained terrible head injuries and would not recover. His grief-stricken parents, Oliver and Rosemarie, honoured Doujon's previous w ...Show more
Stolen Childhood: A Dark Past, a Terrible Secret, a Girl Without a Future by Casey Watson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she's too young to even understand. When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who's just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately sense ...Show more
I Woke Up in the Future by Naomi Jacobs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Naomi Jacobs went to sleep one night in 2008 as a 32-year-old mother, and woke up the next morning believing she was a fifteen-year-old school girl. She did not recognise the house she woke up in, though it was hers, nor her ten-year-old son, Leo. As far as she was concerned, she was in 1992 when John M ...Show more
Peace and War: Britain in 1914 by Nigel Jones
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Category: Biography
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of 'invasion scare' literature. ...Show more
Whitney and Bobbi Kristina by Ian Halperin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Shocking new revelations emerge about superstar Whitney Houston and her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Ian Halperin's account of their tumultuous lives. On January 31, 2015, Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of musical megastars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brow ...Show more
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fourteen unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the ...Show more