Heartlines : The Year I Met My Mother by Susannah McFarlane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is what happened the year I met my other mother. In 1965, Robin, unmarried and pregnant, comes to Melbourne to give birth and give her baby up for adoption, then returns to Perth to resume her life having never seen her baby. After 10 days alone, the baby, is taken home, named Susannah, and made pa ...Show more
Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unab ...Show more
Life as I know It: Michelle Payne by HARMS JOHN PAYNE MICHELLE
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
Michelle Payne rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. She and her 100-to-1 local horse Prince of Penzance took the international racing world by surprise but hers was no overnight success story. Michelle was first put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was ...Show more
Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Eric Edgar Cooke was the last man to hang in Western Australia. Between 1958 and his capture in September 1963, Cooke committed 22 murders and attempted murders that forever changed the face of Perth from a friendly big country town to a city of suspicion and fear. His fantasies and delusions led him to ...Show more
Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist by Robert Verkaik
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It was a defining moment, the first time 'Jihadi John' appeared. Suddenly Islamic State had a face and the whole world knew the extent of their savagery. Weeks later, when his identity was revealed, Robert Verkaik was shocked to realise that this was a man he'd interviewed years earlier. Back in 2010, M ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate: The Joys of Friendship, Gardening and the Gaining of Wisdom by Kate Llewellyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Non-Fiction
A deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal. In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?' Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterl ...Show more
Finding A Way by Graeme Innes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I learned from my family that most things could be achieved - the challenge was finding a way. Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed. Blessed because he had a family who refused to view his blindness as a handicap and who instilled in him a belief in his own abilities. Blessed because he had the de ...Show more
By Your Side: A True Story of Courage, Love and Loss by Jason Carrasco
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I'll be waiting for you, and when we beat this thing we are going to celebrate.' At 15 Cass Nascimento was so beautiful she left boys tongue-tied. But her beauty was more than skin-deep: she was a sunny, generous, kind force of nature. When Jason Carrasco was diagnosed with fast-spreading cancer at age ...Show more
No Dream is Too High: Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life - both in outer space and on earth. No Dream Is Too High whittles down Buzz Aldrin's event-filled life into a short list of principles he values, each illust ...Show more
Smuggler: A True Story of Marijuana, the Hippie Mafia and One of America's Most Wanted International Drug Traffickers by Richard Stratton
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of drug kingpins. He was a clean-cut college student who fell in love with the adrenaline high of cross-border drug trafficking after bringing two kilos of marijuana across the US border from a trip to Mexico. He never looked back. Stratton became a member of the hip ...Show more
Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Extraordinary Letters to His Mother by Donald Sturrock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Roald Dahl is loved around the world for his iconic children's books and darkly humorous stories. But he was also a prolific letter writer. From the age of nine, under the watchful eye of his headmaster, until his death, Dahl's life was filled with correspondence. For much of his life, Dahl wrote weekly ...Show more
Over But Not Out by Richie Benaud
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
Few people understand cricket as well as Richie Benaud. For sixty years, as player and commentator, he has set the standards for others to follow and has witnessed all the major events in the game. No one else has found such favour with the vast numbers of cricket lovers in both Britain and Australia. A ...Show more