Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent by Gregory Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Gregory Smith explains how after a decade living as a recluse in a rainforest he rejoined society and found something better than happiness - contentment. And how you can find contentment too if you just stop trying to be happy.How do you rebuild a broken life? Where do you begin? These were the questio ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land (h/B) by Maggie MacKellar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – th ...Show more
Revolution: Ange Postecoglou: Close Up on Australia's Greatest Ever Football Manager by John Greechan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
When Ange Postecoglou checked-in at Celtic Park he faced a momentous task as he sought to right the wrongs of a season to forget and restore the Hoops to the top of the Premier Division. Would a track record in Australian and Japanese football transfer to the unique landscape of the Scottish game? Woul ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
My Mother's Eyes by Shanelle Dawson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Imagine living with the knowledge that your father had murdered your mother and lied to you your whole life, telling you she left because she didn't love you anymore.How could a father do this to his children? How could a husband do this to a woman he at one time loved? When she was four years old, Sha ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more
Beyond the Rainbow by Linda D. Rhodes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I have no soul. My soul was ripped out of me a long time ago. There has never been an easier time to be gay. As they emerge from a past of perceived sin and illegality, gay men today are increasingly viewed as legitimate equal citizens and there is a very real sense that social values and attitudes tow ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more