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
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating look at the funeral industry and an exploration of how we deal with death and our dead from a young feisty, funny and fearless mortician. From her very first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into the gruesome daily tasks of her cur ...Show more
Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe by Anna Kent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A story of women in crisis, seen through the eyes of a remarkable midwife 'My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we'd saved. And now here I am, training to be a midwife, so that next time I can make it better.'Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for t ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
Honey, Baby, Mine - A mother and daughter talk life, death love (and banana pudding) by Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
*WITH A FOREWORD FROM REESE WITHERSPOON* A collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother-legendary actress Diane Ladd. What happens when we are brave enough to speak our truths to the ones we love the most? Laura ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide.In this first-ever biography of Wong, acclaimed jou ...Show more
The Ballad of Abdul Wade: The Incredible True Story of Australia's unsung Pioneering Heroes - The Afghan Camelleers by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn t access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuel ...Show more
Lawyer X by Patrick Carlyon; Anthony Dowsley (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
nderbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission. Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a pop ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 3 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more