Agatha Christie An Autobiography by CHRISTIE Agatha
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A new-look printing of Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, fr ...Show more
Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action by Bob Brown
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"It is a fortunate life if a person feels more optimistic than ever before. That's me." - Bob Brown // Bob Brown, former Senator and Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens, is one of Australia's most thoughtful and recognized public figures. Since his retirement from public life in 2012, Bob has ...Show more
Dress Memory by Lorelei Vashti
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep?..Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From falling in love for the first time to playing in a band, from starting a career to moving overseas, ever ...Show more
Colin Firth - The Biography by Alison Maloney
$34.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
From the moment Colin Firth took on the role of Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", emerging from the lake in 'that scene', he was set on a path from sex symbol to national treasure and Hollywood star. This biography reveals his early life in Nigeria; the secrets of his escape ...Show more
An Outback Nurse by Thea Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under ...Show more
No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality by Eleanor Learmonth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be ...Show more
What Could Possibly Wrong? by Jeremy Clarkson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
What Could Possibly Go Wrong ...is the sixth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series. No one writes about cars like Jeremy Clarkson. While most correspondents are too buys diving straight into BHP, MPG and MPH, Jeremy appreciates that there are more important things ...Show more
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
$19.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Rob Lowe is teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars. This title chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unre ...Show more
Fabulous Fred: The Strife & Times of Fred Cook by Paul Amy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Fred Cook is one of the great Melbourne stories that combines the life of a true legend of football with exploits of true crime! Fred was a champion footballer who started his career with Footscray in the VFL and then went to Port Melbourne where, in the 1970s he enjoyed fame akin to a pop star. He was ...Show more
Beyond Black and White by Roger Woodward
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The definitive musical autobiography from internationally acclaimed Australian pianist Roger Woodward. This is the remarkable story of one of the world's leading musicians. In Beyond Black And White, the author documents a rich life's journey in this part memoir, part manifesto: from boyhood lessons at ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Canons | Reading Level: very good
Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H.Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by ...everything! Welcome to the world of Dyer! Gripped by indecision at every turn, he agonises over where to settle down to write, whether or not he sho ...Show more
Mademoiselle - Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K Garelick
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth century--t ...Show more