One Last Thing: How to live with the end in mind by Wendy Mitchell
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'This beautiful book will give hope and courage to many people. An uplifting and courageous read' KATHRYN MANNIX The last book from bestselling author and advocate Wendy Mitchell Wendy Mitchell doesn't fear anything anymore. After her diagnosis of young-onset dementia in 2014, all of Wendy's old fears ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
Me, Her, Us by Yen-Rong Wong
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Memoir-essays from an award-winning writer, exploring race, sex, familial expectations, and identity. Raised by strict, religious, Malaysian Chinese parents in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Yen-Rong Wong internalised an idealised image of a Chinese-presenting girl at a young age. As she grew into young ...Show more
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I lost sleep. I retraced my steps but sleep wasn’t following me. It had broken free and I was wandering through the night without it. The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t. What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the bi ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more
My Father's Suitcase by MARY GARDEN
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
How to Avoid a Happy Life by Julia Lawrinson
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From domestic dysfunction to extraordinary bad luck, Julia Lawrinson reflects on her intriguing and eventful life with disarming honesty and wit. Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy choices, l ...Show more
Suddenly Single at Sixty by Jo Peck
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, Jo Peck-smart, successful and sixty-is totally floored. There's the complete bombshell of the news, the cliche of a younger woman-a much younger woman-there's the disappointment of cancelled retirement travel plans, and there's the foundation-rocking loss of ...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