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
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving filed a libel suit aga ...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
A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
$37.50 AUD
Category: General
First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it s Lion, a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara. This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his ch ...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
The Mammoth Book of Muhammad Ali by David West
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Mammoth Books
From his gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games to his defeat of Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight championship in 1964, the unforgettable 'Thrilla in Manila' against Joe Frazier and the 'Rumble in the Jungle' against George Foreman, 'The Greatest of All Time', Muhammad Ali, has captured the att ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's activities, and terrorized at home by her father, wh ...Show more
Momo Freaks Out by Samone Bos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One day, bored at work, Momo, a typical twenty-something, discovered the curious underworld of blogs. Soon she???s living her life online, baring her soul and relationships, equal parts funny and pitiful. Momo Freaks Out represents a time, a subculture and a whole lot of silly hijinks in a decade ...Show more
Boys in the Trees: A Memoir by Carly Simon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Carly Simon is a household name. She was the staple of the '70s and '80s Billboard charts and was famously married to James Taylor with whom she has two children. She has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in thirteen top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain', numerous ...Show more
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II.While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime mili ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son. Starting with his ow ...Show more