Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by David Murray
34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
It began with a phone call to Brisbane police on 20 April 2012. Allison, wife of real-estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay, was missing. When investigating officers arrived at the family home, in one of the city's wealthiest suburbs, a neatly dressed Gerard had been getting the couple's three daughters ready ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: His Time Updated Edition by Jenny Hocking
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Gough Whitlam, Australia's twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in December 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. In barely three years Whitlam's dramatic reform agenda would transform Australia. It was an ascendancy bitterly resented by some, never accepted by others, and ended w ...Show more
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The official book behind the film, The Imitation Game, this is a dramatic portrayal of the life and work of Alan Turing, one of Britain's most extraordinary unsung heroes, and one of the world's greatest innovators.This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nai ...Show more
Chinese Rules: Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons for Understanding China by Tim Clissold
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
From the author of the acclaimed 'Mr. China' comes another rollicking adventure story - part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio - that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China. In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while ...Show more
I'll Drink to That - New York's Legendary Personal Shopper and Her Life in Style - With a Twist by Betty Halbreich
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Betty Halbreich is a true original. Now in her eighties, she has spent nearly forty years at the luxury store Bergdorf Goodman, working with socialites, stars and ordinary women. She has led many to appreciate their real selves through clothes, frank advice and her unique brand of wisdom; she is trusted ...Show more
Letters to the Midwife Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it is filled with all sorts of heart-warming gems. There are stories from other midwives, lorry driv ...Show more
Judi: Behind the Scenes by Judi Dench
45.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
An illustrated memoir of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved actors. 'National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid ... What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I'm trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the b ...Show more
Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Life Lessons from an Extraordinary Man by Louis Zamperini
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
'IF YOU CAN TAKE IT, YOU CAN MAKE IT' Louis Zamperini lived one of the most amazing lives imaginable. As a young boy he was a troublemaker but his will to succeed drove him on to become an Olympian at the 1936 Games. With the outbreak of war, Louis volunteered for the army and was thrust into the violen ...Show more
The Dirty Chef: From big city food critic to foodie farmer by Matthew Evans
22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
How do you go from being an urban dag to a country boy without any experience of the bush? In 2008 Matthew Evans, one of Australia's most powerful food critics, stepped off the Sydney treadmill to farm 20 acres in Australia's southernmost shire. What is it really like to take the plunge, leaving a whole ...Show more
Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-eve ...Show more
Wild - A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
Love Without Limits by Nick Vujicic
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Even though he was born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic created a 'ridiculously good life' for himself. But after dating disappointments and a long-term relationship that ended in heartbreak, he reached his mid- twenties worried that he would never find a woman to love and share his life. Then Nick m ...Show more