Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams & Smashing Glass Ceilings by Dylan Alcott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
The incredible life of an astonishing athlete Dylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve. His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best thing they ever did. Growing up, Dylan always had a positive attitude to life. So when he d ...Show more
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of the twentieth century. By betraying Kafk ...Show more
Australian Heist by James Phelps
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery in ...Show more
Fashion Climbing - A New York Life by Bill Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The New York Times bestseller "[An] obscenely enjoyable romp . . . [Fashion Climbing] leaves the readers gasping for more." --The New York Times Book Review The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori; Lucille Clerc (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Around the World In 80 Ser.
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonatha ...Show more
The PM Years by Kevin Rudd
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It was the coup that killed Australian politics. Less than three years after taking government in a landslide election victory, Kevin Rudd was betrayed by his deputy and the factional powerbrokers of the Australian Labor Party, the 'Faceless Men', despite enjoying historically high personal and party ap ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (Booklist) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century" (Axios). In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the ...Show more
The White Darkness by David Grann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday Times on The Lost City of Z'Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegr ...Show more
This Is Cuba - An American Journalist under Castro's Shadow by David Ariosto
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those wh ...Show more
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K Fisher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared #65533; la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found the ...Show more
Johnathan Thurston (JT) The Autobiography by Johnathan Thurston; James Phelps (As told to)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
The autobiography of the league legend. Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldo ...Show more