Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
Honey Blood by Kirsty Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she’d set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At th ...Show more
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'Home Work is written with a warm heart and a generous spirit ... an honest attempt to make sense of an often chaotic life' SUNDAY EPXRESS'The book is filled with that most distinctive of all her qualities: her voice ... Mary Poppins may appear only briefly here, but her spirit is alive and well' THE TI ...Show more
Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went viral - viewed b ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Diaries
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
A Paper Inheritance by Dymphna Stella Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends Dymphna Cusack and Stella Miles Franklin - finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery.Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a power couple of the Australian literary scene in the mid-twentieth c ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
A Father's Plea by Kamalle Dabboussy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
When Mariam married her childhood sweetheart in a fairytale Sydney wedding, her father Kamalle dreamed of a beautiful future for his family. When the young couple and their baby daughter went on an overseas holiday, he couldn't have been happier. But a dark secret was lurking on the horizon. They would ...Show more
The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.
Persepolis I & II (Film tie-in edition) by Marjane Satrapi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Th ...Show more
Big Blue Sky: A memoir by Peter Garrett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives.From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, to an early interest in equality and justice; from ...Show more
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experim ...Show more