Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"A powerful and necessary book that looks at the threat of emerging diseases with clarity and realism, and offers us not just fear but plans."---Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains ...Show more
The Mockingbird Next Door - Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Journalists have trekked to Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where she has lived with her sister Alice for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a lo ...Show more
Murder Without Motive - the Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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After Before Time by Robbi Neal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
The Lady in Gold The Extraordinary Tales of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece by Anne-Marie O'Connor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.""Contributor to the"Washington Post"Anne-Marie O Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt s 1907 masterpiece the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish ...Show more
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having ta ...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
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
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
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
At Home in the World: From a Monk's Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking and inspiring. Collected here for the first time, these stories span his life. There are stories from his childhood and the traditions of rural Vietnam. There are stories from ...Show more
Walk Through Walls - A Memoir by Marina Abramovic
$49.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Marina Abramovic has been making groundbreaking art for 50 years, and now turns her gaze inward, to reveal her past with utter candor in a narrative guaranteed to shock and delight. After withstanding a difficult childhood, she met Ulay, a performance artist and the love of her life, with whom she colla ...Show more