Browse by category
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the ...Show more
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (PB) by Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
____________________ 'Sharp, moving memoir . . . Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.' New York Times A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us Clemantine Wam ...Show more
How I Clawed My Way to the Middle by John Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!' I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke - had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of hig ...Show more
Meghan Misunderstood by Sean Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the world. Meghan was eleven when she first advocated for women's rights; a teenager when she worked in a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress ...Show more
Being Mortal : Illness Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Wellcome Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
Like Father Like Son by Michael Parkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The author of the beloved No.1 bestseller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm 'A beautifully-written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.' - Nigel Slater 'Just about perfect.' - Wendell Berry James ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
My Lucky Stroke: Searching for Sarah by Sarah Brooker
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet. On New Year's Eve, 2002, an unbelievable series of events occurred: a brain aneurysm, a devastating car accident, a body broken and a mind shattered. A life was changed forever. Several weeks la ...Show more
The Court of Miracles (#1) by Kester Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: The\Court of Miracles Trilogy Ser.
Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is d ...Show more
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping Our Future by Ashlee Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is ...Show more
