Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to b ...Show more
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988 by Michael Palin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which ...Show more
The Art of Free Travel: A frugal family adventure by Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
Patrick, Meg and their family had built a happy, sustainable life in regional Victoria. But in late 2013, they found themselves craving an adventure: a road trip. But theirs was a road trip with a difference. With Zephyr (10), Woody (1) and Zero their Jack Russell, they set off on an epic 6,000km year-l ...Show more
Commitment : My Autobiography by Didier Drogba
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
The story of one of the most recognisable and successful players in world football. Didier Drogba is renowned for his heading ability, sharp shooting and sheer strength. He has played for his native Ivory Coast and for clubs in France, China and Turkey, but it is as a Chelsea striker that he is best kno ...Show more
Murder Without Motive - the Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Valtesse de la Bigne
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamourous existence hid a ...Show more
Nostradamus For Dummies by Scarlett Ross
$30.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Nostradamus made simple-a surefire prophecy of success! Michel Notredame, or Nostradamus (1503-1566), was a French physician, astrologer, and prophet whose books of visionary four-line verses have intrigued and beguiled readers for hundreds of years. Now, with this fun and easy guide, everyone can final ...Show more
Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
"Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Austr ...Show more
Raising Ryland — Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child by Hillary Whittington
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This powerful, moving story-which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family-is a mother's first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child. When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five ...Show more
This is Gail by Gail O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An inspiring story of one woman's journey through heartbreaking loss to renewal and new purpose. In 2008, inspirational surgeon and Lifehouse cancer centre founder Chris O'Brien published his bestselling memoir of his battle with brain cancer, NEVER SAY DIE. But he wasn't the only person in the O'Brien ...Show more
Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
'I've lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac - and that's just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?' When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favourite pieces for her new book she realised that they all seemed to join up. Turns out, it's the same old p ...Show more