Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
The"New York Times"bestselling author of"Sweetness"delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports most-revered and dominant dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
The Fighter - A True Story by Arnold Zable
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen exudes vigour. His life force is strong. It ani ...Show more
Plevna by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
He was a Melbourne surgeon. He worked for the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War. He was the oldest man at Gallipoli, and took illegal photographs during a nine-hour truce. He repaired Ned Kelly after the Siege of Glenrowan. He cut quite a figure in "Marvellous Melbourne" of the 1880s and 90s. He d ...Show more
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NOW IN PAPERBACK We all think we know who Steve Jobs was, what made him tick, and what made him succeed. Yet the single most important question about him has never been answered. The young, impulsive, egotistical genius was ousted in the mid-80s from th ...Show more
Our Vietnam Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much har ...Show more
After Before Time by Robbi Neal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
The Lady in Gold The Extraordinary Tales of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece by Anne-Marie O'Connor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.""Contributor to the"Washington Post"Anne-Marie O Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt s 1907 masterpiece the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish ...Show more
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting insider's look a ...Show more
Love Wins by Jim Obergefell, Debbie Cenziper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade. At the heart of the Obergefell v Hodges case is a story of law and love and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. Twenty years ago, Jim ...Show more
The Wright Brothers: The Dramatic Story-Behind-the-Story by David McCullough
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how wa ...Show more
Out of Orange: A Memoir by Cleary Wolters
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time—a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond. Fans nati ...Show more