Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East by Benjamin Law
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. But as the child of migrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet ...Show more
Lives by Peter Robb
32.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In Lives, an extraordinary writer encounters some remarkable people - and evokes their inner lives. Peter Robb has an uncanny ability to get into the skin of other people- to show them in a new light, to home on what makes them tick. In Australia, these range from Alex Dimitriades to Ivan Milat, from Ma ...Show more
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism by Rachel Robertson
29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Deeply touching but never sentimental, this remarkable book is more than a story of one boy and his mother. It's a thoughtful meditation on the intricate workings of the human mind and heart.' TONI JORDAN When Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to count letterboxes; he ...Show more
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
26.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream - Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and ...Show more
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes
34.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Twenty years ago Frances Mayes, having ended a long marriage and begun a new relationship, was travelling in Italy and happened upon an abandoned, grand but dilapidated three-storey house called 'Bramasole' just outside the Tuscan hillside of Cortona.
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
Fat, Forty And Fired by Nigel Marsh
19.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Nigel Marsh is a stressed, overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a high-pressured career, a marriage and the demands of four small children under eight. Then the unthikable happened - he loses his job. After the initial shock (and some unpleasant surgery) Nigel decides to embrace life outside ...Show more
Lucky Man: Michael J. Fox Memoir by Michael J. Fox
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announc ...Show more
Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley
24.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories of all time. Even as they coasted down the channel, ...Show more
An Uncommon Dialogue by Debra Drake
27.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Debra Drake's gripping autobiographical account of two years in psychotherapy. Told as a dialogue between Debra and her psychiatrist, and as dialogue between her mother and sister, it explores Debra's emotions following the sisters' prolonged sexual abuse as children, by their mother's sexual partners. ...Show more
Bound for Vietnam by Linda Laube
19.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Thrown off course by a chance conversation on the Trans-Siberian Express, Lydia Laube, author of "Behind the Veil: An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia" and "Slowboat to Mongolia" heads for the hills of South China in search of a passage to Vietnam. Exiting China by pedal power, and entering Vietnam on a ...Show more