The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
As American astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from shy military spouses to American royalty: having tea with Jackie Kennedy, attending high society galas, and being featured on the co ...Show more
Under a Mackerel Sky by Rick Stein
$34.95 AUD
Category: General
The wry, perceptive and brilliantly evocative memoir of one of Britain's best-loved cooks.Stein's formative years in the 50s were shaped by the Oxfordshire farm he was brought up on and his family's much loved holiday home in Cornwall. But ever-present were the black moods of his bi-polar father who saw ...Show more
Branson Behind the Mask by Tom Bower
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The image remains pristine: a charismatic high-school dropout turned billionaire, whose stratospheric rise and daring exploits have won him millions of enduring admirers and made him a model for aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the world. But is this story still credible? Over the last decade, has Bran ...Show more
Montebello: A Memoir by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.' In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even tod ...Show more
Things A Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind by Biz Stone
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter-the social media platform that single ...Show more
Life Sentence: A Police Officer's Battle with PTSD by Simon Gillard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
'I'm awake again, shaking, sweating. My heart is racing and I stare into the dark. I can't close my eyes. I fear the images - too many to count. They swim behind my eyelids; I am drowning in their terror. Suicides, heart attacks, murders, car crashes. The images come again and again. All the dead people ...Show more
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Ridgeley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM ONE HALF OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BANDS For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friendship with George Michael and the formation of a band that changed the shape of the music scene in the early eighties. 'I couldn't put ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple 'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 18 ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating look at the funeral industry and an exploration of how we deal with death and our dead from a young feisty, funny and fearless mortician. From her very first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into the gruesome daily tasks of her cur ...Show more