The Golden Gang: Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian history by Ian W. Shaw
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Atop the hierarchy of Australian bushrangers sits Ned Kelly – the ultimate outlaw, and just below him, the tragic figure of Ben Hall, who joined a gang led by a man whose name today is less well known, but who in his day was much more famous than Hall or any other bushranger – Frank Gardiner. Mastermin ...Show more
My Roman Year by Andre Aciman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The elegant and insightful memoir from the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Find Me and The Gentleman From Peru. Rome, 1964. As 13 year old Andre stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza by Samah Sabawi
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one ...Show more
When Life Gives You Lemurs: How saving animals saved me by Deborah Kane, Tim Husband
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A compelling story, beautifully told, about how animals can show you a way forward.' - Richard Glover A story of the tender power of animals to heal broken humans. Tim Husband was born into a Jehovah's Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God's Word. Struggling to fit into this orthod ...Show more
Taylor Swift: Era by Era: The Unauthorized Biography by Caroline Sullivan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography. We’re all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas and become one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her Eras To ...Show more
Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The Epic Race to Connect Australia to the World by David Dufty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong. It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and ...Show more
Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen by Lynda La Plante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The hilarious and moving tell-all memoir from the UK's queen of crime drama. Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it. From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA, joining peers Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane; from beginning h ...Show more
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her ext ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
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Category: Biography
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag by Michelle Brasier
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Your future is not guaranteed. And isn't that freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it? That's a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there's a high chance she ...Show more
Sassafras: A memoir of love, loss and MDMA therapy by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Biography
When you know that you need help but conventional means have failed you, what is left is the unexpected. MDMA is a drug made from the oil of the root of the sassafras tree. It is known as a party drug, taken by people who want to have a good time, to dance, to shed their inhibitions. It has also, si ...Show more