Bedtime Story (H/B Illustrated) by Chloe Hooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
Already acclaimed as a modern classic, Chloe Hooper's memoir of talking with her children about mortality is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Anna Walker; this hardback, colour gift edition creates an irresistible object out of this magical work. By the bestselling author of The Tall Man an ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
How We Love by Clementine Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Includes 18 copies of How We Love, dumpbin and custom header.
A Sultan in Autumn - Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces by Soner Cagaptay
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: The\Washington Institute for near East Policy Ser.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Turkey for nearly two decades. Here, Soner Cagaptay, a leading authority on the country, offers insights on the next phase of Erdogan's rule. His dwindling support base at home, coupled with rising opposition, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Turkey's weak economy, ...Show more
A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening by Ashleigh Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: srg22
A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley-in her own words. We sit at the table, opposite each other, a tape recorder and a microphone between us, and I begin by saying that I don't want ...Show more
Bypass: The Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"All the dirt on the Hume Highway" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the great roads of the world, it is longer than it is wide. Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the H ...Show more
Father Bob: The Larrikin Priest by Sue Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"This is the life story of Father Bob Maguire - a rare behind-the-scenes look at the much-loved 'people's priest'. The enigmatic champion of the down-and-out was shaped by a lonely childhood in poor circumstances, an early priesthood that collided with the upheaval of Vatican 11 and working with the arm ...Show more
Second Life by David Hoysted
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From husband to carer - what it's like to look after the love of your life in palliative careNanette and David Hoysted had been married twenty-seven years when Nanette suddenly suffered a massive, life-threatening brain haemorrhage that left her in a coma. She sustained significant brain damage that wou ...Show more
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she brought empathy back to an entire generatio ...Show more
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more