A Dolphin Called Jock: An injured dolphin, a lost young woman, a story of hope by Melody Horrill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The compelling, heart-warming story of how a traumatised young woman found peace through her friendship with an injured dolphin called Jock. When Melody Horrill began communications at the University of South Australia she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully crafted exterior. ...Show more
Anna - The Biography by Amy Odell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob hair ...Show more
What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young: The Art And Science Of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester, Alice Thomson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come. This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life – children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereaveme ...Show more
Olive Cotton by Helen Ennis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving. Winner of the 2020 Canberra Critics' Circle Award for BiographyWinner of the University of Queensland Non Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Aw ...Show more
Rattled by Ellis Gunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rattled tells a frighteningly honest story of what it feels like to be pursued by a stalker.What if your life were suddenly transformed by anxiety and fear? The fear of being alone, the anxiety compelling you to stay in public places and avoid predictable routines. The horrible uncertainty of not knowin ...Show more
Diana, William and Harry by James Patterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Twenty-five years after her tragic death, James Patterson tells the heartbreaking true story of Princess Diana's life as a mother and a global iconAt the age of thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer.At twenty, Princess of Wales.At twenty-one, she earned her most important title- Mother.As she fell in ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
Harold Holt: Always One Step Further by Ross Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was H ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more
Putting on a Show by Rob Mills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What's going on behind the bravado of the 'average Aussie bloke'? Following the untimely deaths of two friends, Rob Mills began questioning who he is as a person and a man. Soon his self-reflection shifted outwards, and he got to wondering how he fits into the category of 'Aussie bloke'. Who is the aver ...Show more
Best Laid Plans: On finding magic in life's most challenging moments by Georgie Abay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The magic is still there - you just need to look for it.From journalist and author Georgie Abay, Best Laid Plans is an honest and frank look at how modern life never goes according to plan, and what you can do about it. It's about learning to accept what we have, finding the joy in Plan B, and embracing ...Show more