The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
The Lady Vanishes (PB) by Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles, Marc Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. Australia's most extraordinary missing persons case is examined by the journalists who created the global hit podcast into the disappearance of Marion Barter, a mother of two who simply vanished. ...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
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain ...Show more
The Indi Way: how a rural community sparked a social and political movement by Voices for Indi
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A behind-the-scenes account of how a rural community found its own voice, elected its own independent representatives, and inspired a national movement that is transforming Australian politics. Twelve people met for the first time at their local library in the rural and regional electorate of Indi in n ...Show more
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that i ...Show more
Climb Your Mountain - Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life by Ranulph Fiennes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies, Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a lifetime of exploration, and draws powerful, inspiring lessons that we can all use when faced by the tribulations of everyday life. Having crossed both Polar i ...Show more
Walking Free: The Extraordinary True Story by Munjed Al Muderis; Patrick Weaver (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theater and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
Orphan Rock by Dominique Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights.The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But when Bessie starts to work for Louisa Lawson at The D ...Show more
A Joyful Life: One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude by Rosemary Kariuki, Summer Land
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local Heroes. Long before she was advocating for refugee and migrant women just like herself, Rosemary was a survivor like no other. As a child, she survived the first of many times she was sexually abused. A ...Show more
Embrace: My Story from Body Loather to Body Lover by Taryn Brumfitt
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Body confidence does not come from trying to achieve the perfect body, it comes from embracing the one you've already got." This is the book for every woman who hates the way her body looks, and derides herself for not having the perfect figure. It is for those who have allowed those negative and harmf ...Show more