Manderley Forever: The Life of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A portrait of one writer by another, Manderley Forever meticulously recounts a life as mysterious and dramatic as the work it produced, and highli ...Show more
The Bridge to Brilliance - How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World by Nadia Lopez; Rebecca Paley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who "stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges A ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
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Category: Biographies
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-thre ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia?s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardcover) by Tim Winton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
'Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word' ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela; Sahm Venter (Editor); Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (Foreword by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biographies
From The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
My Girls: A Lifetime with Debbie and Carrie by Todd Fisher
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
**NEW** A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the person who knew them best, Todd Fisher's poignant memoir is filled with moving stories of growing up among Hollywood royalty. In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
The Commando by Ben McKelvey
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Category: Biographies
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
Royal Babies by Gill Knappett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Queen Victoria, once remarked 'I don't dislike babies though I think very young ones are rather disgusting'. She went on to have nine children. As 2018 heralds the arrival of a new baby for the House of Windsor, who will be fifth in line to the throne, this book outlines all they can expect as a baby i ...Show more
The Desert and the Sea : 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign polic ...Show more