The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Me ...Show more
Shanti Bloody Shanti: An Indian Odyssey by Aaron Smith
25.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Fleeing his shady Australian past, Aaron Smith travels to India and encounters a murder mystery, witnesses the tragic death of a friend, dodges terrorist attacks and a revolution and befriends a colourful cast of fellow characters fit for a Bollywood flick. More than just a funny and warm coming of (mid ...Show more
The Dirty Chef : From Big City Food Critic to Foodie Farmer by Matthew Evans
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
From an often controversial job as one of Australia's most powerful food critics, Matthew Evans stepped, unknowing and untested, off the treadmill. Leaving the urban grit of a terrace house in Sydney's inner west, he ended up on 20 acres in Australia's most southernmost shire; a smallholder farmer in Ta ...Show more
A History of Silence : A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."--The Guardian "Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to w ...Show more
Nicholson: A Biography by Marc Eliot
39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
THE GROUNDBREAKING NEW BIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WITH ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND FASCINATING CAREERS--AND LIVES--IN HOLLYWOOD. For five decades, Jack Nicholson has been part of film history. With twelve Oscar nominations to his credit and legendary roles in films like "Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Terms of En ...Show more
Is it is just me?: Confessions of an over sharer by Chrissie Swan
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
"You know what I want? I want to be able to have fun wherever I am. I want to laugh. All. The. Time. I want to have one holiday every year with my family where we have no plans and nowhere else to be. I want to watch less television and read more books. I want to be able to whinge about never being able ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man by Margaret Simons
45.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship and poverty. Today Stokes is one of Australi ...Show more
White Beech: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
For years I had wandered Australia with an aching heart. Everywhere I had ever travelled across the vast expanse of the fabulous country where I was born I had seen devastation, denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over the world, feral animals, open-cut mines as big as cities, salt rivers, salt ...Show more
Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There by Paul Carter
22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The author of Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs shares more hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures Paul Carter is still, well . . . Paul Carter. He's still risking his life performing daredevil acts like trying to break speed records on un ...Show more
In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future : Tributes and speeches by Nelson Mandela (eds Kader Asmal, David Chidester & Wilmot James)
26.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
IN HIS OWN WORDS is a selection of Nelson Mandela's speeches, providing a lively, memorable profile of his lifelong commitment to freedom and reconciliation, democracy, and the flourishing of all the people of South Africa, Africa and the world. Arranged thematically, each section of speeches is introdu ...Show more
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe by Mick Wall
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Way back in the mists of time, in the days when rock giants walked the earth, the name Ozzy Osbourne was synonymous with subversive and dark. Back then, Ozzy was the singer in Black Sabbath, and they meant business. In an era when it seemed possible to measure a band's musical prowess by how 'heavy' the ...Show more
Johnny Cash : The Life by Robert Hilburn
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
People don't just listen to Johnny Cash: they believe in him. Although part of his life has been told on film, there are many compelling layers to his story that have remained hidden -- until now. Robert Hilburn tells the unvarnished truth about a musical icon whose personal life was far more troubled a ...Show more