Love Your Sister by Samuel Johnson; Connie Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A searingly honest memoir of family and love, this is the unforgettable tale of two inspiring Australians - Connie and Samuel Johnson. Connie had a love/hate relationship with cancer. She hated cancer but cancer loved her. It sought her out at twelve, again at twenty-two and then, at thirty-three, as a ...Show more
Woolloomooloo by Louis Nowra
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be. Told in his vivid and entertaining style, Louis Nowra writes Woolloomooloo’s biography, drink in hand, from the vantage point of the Old Fitzroy Hotel, the cosy, eccentric and wonderful p ...Show more
The Food and Wine of France: Eating & Drinking from Champagne to Provence by Edward Behr
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
France remains the greatest country for bread, cheese and wine, and its culinary techniques are the foundation of the training of nearly every serious Western cook and some beyond. In The Food and Wine of France, acclaimed food writer Edward Behr talks with chefs and goes to see top artisanal producers ...Show more
Going Solo: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughou ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This insightful and accessible new biography of Alfred Deakin, Australia's second prime minister, shines fresh light on one of the nation's most significant figures. It brings out from behind the image of a worthy, bearded father of federation the gifted, passionate and intriguing man whose contribution ...Show more
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its disti ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Susan Duncan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek.The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In The House on the Hill, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramificat ...Show more
A Bold Life by Kerri-Anne Kennerley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Kerri-Anne Kennerley is Australia's queen of television. But behind the glamour of a public life is a private woman. And a survivor. A Bold Life is the tale of a Sandgate girl who chased her dream of being a cabaret star to New York, only to find herself stranded in a violent marriage to a dangerous dr ...Show more
The Hornet: From Bullied Schoolboy To World Champion by Jeff Horn; Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
My journey from bullied schoolboy to world champion The story of Jeff Horn reads like a fairytale. Written with award-winning author, journalist and boxing aficionado Grantlee Kieza, The Hornet is the tale of a boy who, slapped around by bullies, saw through tears in his eyes a vision of himself as a he ...Show more
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year "As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life soAli: A Life is an epic of a biography . . . pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel--a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid charac ...Show more
A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown kill ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
Alfred Deakin - scholar, spiritualist, prime minister - was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the ...Show more