And on That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of Top Gear by Richard Porter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
For 13 years, 22 series and 175 shows, Richard Porter was script editor of Top Gear, from the first faltering pilot episode in 2002 until the very last show presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in 2015. Along the way they destroyed cars, sparked diplomatic incidents, set fire to c ...Show more
Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Eric Edgar Cooke was the last man to hang in Western Australia. Between 1958 and his capture in September 1963, Cooke committed 22 murders and attempted murders that forever changed the face of Perth from a friendly big country town to a city of suspicion and fear. His fantasies and delusions led him to ...Show more
Lecretia's Choice: A Story of Love, Death and the Law by Matt Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I want to make things easier for people coming after me,' Lecretia told the interviewer. 'I want to make a difference to the law. And it's quite exciting that I'm in a position where I might be able to do that.' She had just learned that chemotherapy was no longer an option. A successful young lawyer i ...Show more
The Return by Hisham Matar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary memoir of a son's search for his father and the return to a homeland he never thought he'd see again Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was finally ...Show more
Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
South Africa, 1987. Apartheid. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard working on death row commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court's sentence - seems a foregone conclusion. Hotshot lawyer John Weber (played by S ...Show more
Don Bradman: The Definitive Biography - Based on Exclusive Interviews with the Don by Roland Perry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
'In the summer of 1930 a cricketing machine, by the name of Donald Bradman, played havoc around the county grounds of England, pulverising the finest bowlers in the land, shattering records left, right and centre, and making a tour debut the like of which will surely never be seen again.' -WH Ferguson, ...Show more
My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar recalls her time in Paris - falling in love, finding herself, and being initiated into the world of high fashion.
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world loo ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon | Reading Level: very good
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned paint ...Show more
Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son by Mark Colvin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Light and Shadowis the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent. Mark covered local and global events for the ABC for more than four decades, reporting on ...Show more
Frozen Hope: My IVF Journey by Jacqui Cooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After a stellar career as a world champion aerial skier, Jacqui Cooper's only hope to start a family was IVF. While there's plenty of technical information out there for women embarking on this process, Jacqui yearned for some real, honest, warts-and-all advice on the highs and lows of IVF. But she coul ...Show more
Michael: My Brother, Lost Boy of INXS by Tina Hutchence
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The life and death of the legendary lead singer of INXS, as remembered by his sister Tina