Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Beeswax and Tall Tales: Memories of an Aussie Antique Dealer by Jane Crowley, Athol Salter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people's stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased es ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Don Dunstan was one of the most significant political figures of twentieth-century Australia. As Premier of South Australia, he blazed a trail of reform. But his influence reached far beyond his home state. He was seen as the architect of a new kind of Australian society, and his decade in office marked ...Show more
Able (Fully updated edition) by Dylan Alcott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The incredible life of an astonishing athlete and now disability advocate - fully updated to include Wimbledon and French Open wins and moreDylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve.His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best th ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage ...Show more
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World by Elaine Pearson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come, and ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal. This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope of t ...Show more
Danger Music: How Teaching the Cello to Children in Afghanistan Led to a Self-Discovery Almost Too Hard to Bear by Eddie Ayres
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience, from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his 30s and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful Australian morning radio show. But all of this time Edd ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more