Julie and Julia : My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few items she's grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage P ...Show more
Full Disclosure: Stormy Daniels by Stormy Daniels
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Standing up to bullies is my kind of thing." How did Stormy Daniels become the woman willing to take on a president? In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey ...Show more
Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality by Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From its tentative origins in 2004, through to a groundswell of public support, everyday people contribut ...Show more
King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages- the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the ...Show more
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler. Yes Please finds Amy riffing on everything from sex and love to motherhood, famil ...Show more
More Dashing - Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Adam Sisman (Volume Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a ze ...Show more
Gustave Flaubert by Anne Green
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists, and his work continues to influence and inspire contemporary writers, artists, and musicians. Flaubert was determined from a young age to become a writer and achieved sudden fame in 1857 when his first published no ...Show more
Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Majesty by Tim Ewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Y Ser.
Written by the former ITV News Royal Editor, Tim Ewart, this beautifully illustrated book looks at the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history. During this time, Her Majesty has maintained traditions that link the United Kingdom of today with a history that ...Show more
The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance' -- Helen Macdonald'A great read - incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective' -- Chris Packham' A delightful, endlessly fascinating book'-- Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEKThis is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and advent ...Show more
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called 'Alien' by Jeremy Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The hacker now known as Alien entered MIT in 1998, intending to major in aerospace engineering. Almost immediately, she was recruited to join a secret student group scaling walls, breaking into buildings, pulling elaborate pranks, and exploring computer systems. Within a year, one of her hall mates was ...Show more
The Edge of The World by Marcella Polain
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful, monumental story of a Turkish Armenian family which spans one hundred years, four countries and several generations. A family that disintegrates as a result of genocide, exile and emigration, but which, through acts of courage and compassion, is eventually brought together again, albiet utte ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more