The Freedom Circus: One family's death-defying act to escape the Nazis and start a new life in Australia by Sue Smethurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Written by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is Mindla and Michael's grandson, The Freedom Circus is an epic story of courage, hope, humanity, survival and, ultimately, love. When Sue Smethurst first sat down with her grandmother-in-law and asked how she survived the Holoc ...Show more
Darwin : Updated Edition by Tess Lea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: City Ser.
Razed to the ground four times in its short history, the city of Darwin, Australia, has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow. Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To write about her home town, Tess Lea w ...Show more
Bachar Houli by Bachar Houli
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bachar Houli is as accomplished an AFL footballer as they come. He's been part of two Richmond Premiership sides, he was an All-Australian in 2019, and with over 200 games to his name he remains a key part of a champion team. Picked at number 42 in the 2006 National Draft by Essendon, Houli played 26 ga ...Show more
I'm a Joke and So Are You - A Comedian's Take on What Makes Us Human by Robin Ince
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Evening Standard's the Best Comedy Books of the Year Skinny's Book of the Year What better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians - those who professionally examine our quirks on stage daily? Reviews for I'm a Joke and So Are You: 'Joyfully entertaining.' - Observer 'Funny, ho ...Show more
Christmas Tales by William McInnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Tis the season to be jolly! One of Australia's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of stories about everyone's favourite family holiday. I can't help it if I'm a boring conservative dag, but I love Christmas, always have and hopefully always will. Whatever brand of faith you fly under, ev ...Show more
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more
Grief on the Run by Julie Zarifeh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater rafting accident just sixteen days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. She describes how she and her surviving son and daughter dealt with this double whammy and how she embraced the not ...Show more
Shanghai Acrobat by Jingjing Xue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For readers of Mao's Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia. Jingjing Xue was born in China in the 1950s, during one of the worst times in the reign of communist leader Mao Zedong, or Chairman Mao. Mao's extreme f ...Show more
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's StartupScene by Anna Wiener
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
‘Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit‘Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino‘This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's ph ...Show more
My Inner Sky: On embracing day, night and all the times in between by Mari Andrew
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of ...Show more
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more