A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$16.99 AUD
Category: General
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a lea ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
The Lego Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination by Jens Andersen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary inside story of LEGO, based on unprecedented access to the company’s archives and rare interviews with the founding family that still owns the company"This book tells the story of how my family built the LEGO brand." —Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former President/CEO of the LEGO Group and 3 ...Show more
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest wo ...Show more
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night, he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab; to the wife and kids who waited for him at home; and the fast-talking, hard-partyi ...Show more
In Pieces by Sally Field
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
'A memoir as soulful, wryly witty, and lyrical as it is candid and courageous' - Booklist, starred review'Impressive, candid and vivid' The Times 'Beautifully written' Sunday TimesSally Field is one of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring actors of our time, and now she tells her story for the fi ...Show more
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Prof Kate Clifford Larson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
One of "People" s Top Ten Books of 2015 "[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a woman who, until now, has never been viewed in full."" Boston Globe" A biography that chronicles her life with fresh details . . . By making Rosemary the central character, [Larson] has produced a valuab ...Show more
Lorde: Your Heroine (Unauthorised Biography) by Marc Shapiro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The unauthorised biography of the New Zealand teen superstar, Lorde by a New York Times bestselling author.
Once a Jolly Hangman - True Stories from Singapore's Death Row by Alan Shadrake
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Singapore has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the world. Its government claims that only the death penalty can deter drug dealers from using their country as a transport hub - but this hard-hitting investigation reveals disturbing truths about how and when the death penalty is applied. ...Show more
Words and Pictures by Quentin Blake
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Following on from our hugely successful publication of Beyond the Page, we are thrilled to be publishing Words and Pictures in paperback for the first time. This is the fascinating insight into Quentin's work before Beyond the Page, from the start of his career until 2000. The words describe his approac ...Show more