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
Cecil Healy - The Epic Tale of Australia's Only Olympic Gold Medallist to Die at War by John Devitt; Larry Writer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biographies
When John Devitt won Olympic 100-metre freestyle gold in 1960, his inspiration was Healy. He always wanted to write his hero's biography. Now, on the centenary of Healy's death, Devitt has joined with Larry Writer to produce an extraordinary tale of a man who was born to swim, earned sporting immortalit ...Show more
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown by Roger Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In a career that spanned over seven decades, Roger Moore was at the very heart of the show-business scene. We all knew him as an actor who starred in films that made him famous the world over, but he was also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur - in fact, he was well known as one of the nicest g ...Show more
Sisters and Spies: the True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Beautiful Thing : Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer by Sonia Faleiro
$10.00 AUD
$29.95 (66% off)
Category: Biographies
When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find- downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty. Instead she meets Leela- nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay's bars since she wa ...Show more
The Good Neighbour: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taki ...Show more
Man Called Yarra by Stan Yarramunua
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
oI'm a Wathaurong man. I'm an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.oStan oYarrao Yarramunua- artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill - and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father - Yarra had a tumultuous and of ...Show more
Paramedic - The Remarkable Resilience of the Human Spirit by Sandy Macken
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Experience the exhilaration and danger of emergency trauma, where a few seconds can mean the difference between life and death, but also the raw beauty, vulnerability and remarkable resilience of the human spirit. We expect our ambos to be superhuman, remaining calm, controlling their emotions and thin ...Show more
Back. After the Break by Osher Gunsberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Osher Gunsberg, one of Australia's most loved celebrities, opens up in a powerful, dark, funny and heartwrenching memoir about life, love and living with mental illness. It's hard to remember a time when Osher Gunsberg (or Andrew G as he was then) wasn't on TV - he's just always been there, looking at e ...Show more
Me. You. Not A Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Dawn French
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' Independent Me You is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It's a place for me and you to reflect on the patterns and changes of the year. It's full of my thoughts about the seasons, the months and what matters. It's your guide to re ...Show more
Magic by Jan Golembiewski
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'I couldn't put it down.' Sofie LagunaThis is a true story. A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake.In the Caribbean, he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him ...Show more
Active Labour: Memoirs of a Working-Class Doctor by Percy Rogers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Percy Rogers was no ordinary doctor. Raised in small Western Australian towns, at fifteen he saved enough to buy a train ticket to Perth, where night school was free, with a hope to study medicine. From there he embarked on a medical career that would take him around Australia and the world, from Hobart ...Show more