Full Bore by William McInnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us cringe with recognition and laugh with warm affection. His trademark humour and anecdotes litter this ...Show more
My Story: Michael Clarke by Michael Clarke
$44.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
Michael Clarke is an international cricket legend and one of the most talked about Australians of the 21st century. Until 2015 he held 'the highest office in the land' - Australian cricket captain - and was widely hailed as the sharpest mind in the game. In a storied career from 2004 - 2015, Clarke play ...Show more
A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
With BREAKING BAD, Bryan Cranston created moments that had the world on the edge of their seats and coined catchphrases that became famous all over the globe. Now, at last, we can learn of the man behind one of TV's most successful programmes ever. Bryan Cranston's profile has skyrocketed, due to his po ...Show more
Cynthia Nolan: A Biography by M. E. McGuire
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This biography studies the making of writer and artist's wife Cynthia Nolan, born Violet Cynthia Reed. She was almost forty when she married Sidney Nolan and consigned her past to obscurity. It tracks this brave, elusive figure through historical sources, letters, her novels, the recollections of friend ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and pers ...Show more
Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path has led to international renown and numerous accolades including two Academy Awards. Recently she has b ...Show more
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers by Bob Eckstein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From beloved"New Yorker"cartoonist Bob Eckstein, "Footnotes from the World s Greatest Bookstores"invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. This collection of seventy-five of the most cherished bookstores from arou ...Show more
Saint-Germain-Des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter by John Baxter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative "biographies" of Paris's great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres-the city's "rebel quarter," for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual, and revolutio ...Show more
The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst (Film Tie-In 'The Mercy') by Nicholas Tomalin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, directed by James Marsh (The Theory of Everything). In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunit ...Show more
Alone by Brett Archibald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night during a storm in remote Indonesian waters, without anyone else on board realising. Eight hours later a frantic search was unde ...Show more
Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A stunning new memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way ...Show more