How to Be a Bad BirdwatcherTo the Greater Glory of Life by Simon Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Look out the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a bad birdwatcher. Inthis refreshingly irreverent introduction to the subject, Simon Barnes makes birdwatching simple--and above all, enjoyable. Anyone who has ever looked up at the sky or gazed out the window knows a thing or two a ...Show more
Real Chopper: The Man Behind the Legend, Inside and Out by Adam Shand
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author ...mythmaker? Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly knew ...Show more
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma. For almost six decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has fascinated people worldwide. The subject of numerous books and thousands of articles, her life has probably been documented in millions ...Show more
Blood Matters : A journey along the genetic frontier by Masha Gessen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision - what to do with such knowledge - Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her, and with expert ...Show more
A King in Hiding: How a Child Refugee Became a World Chess Champion by Fahim
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Forced to flee his native Bangladesh, eight year-old chess prodigy Fahim arrived in Paris with his father. Refused asylum, as illegal immigrants they spiralled downwards into homelessness and desperation. By a stroke of luck, Fahim was introduced to one of France's top chess coaches, Xavier Parmentier, ...Show more
Chocolate Cake with Hitler by Emma Craigie
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Chocolate Cake with Hitler' tells the incredible story of Helga Goebbels, the 12 year-old daughter of a leading Nazi who, with her family, spent the last ten days of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler. As defeat closes in on the Germans, life in Hitler's bunker becomes increasi ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and ...Show more
Carsick by John Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin moustache, and a cardboard sign that reads 'I'm Not Psycho', he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film d ...Show more
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: The Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold.' He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked ...Show more
The Other Side of Absence: Discovering My Father's Secrets by Betty O'Neill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Betty O'Neill grew up knowing very little about her father, Antoni. She knew that he had fled Poland after World World Two, that he had disappeared overnight when she was just an infant, and that his brief reappearance when she was a young adult had been a harrowing, painful ordeal. Fifty-five years ...Show more
Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Chris Broad
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From YouTube sensation Chris Broad, the hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the world's most mysterious cultures. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if h ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more