Killing It - Learning the Art of Butchery by Camas Davis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After losing her job as a food journalist, Camas Davis felt totally lost, out of love with her life and the world. She had spent her career writing about food, but she had never forced herself to grapple with how it got to her plate. Now she wanted to change that, she wanted to experience something real ...Show more
Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Mafia and the Movies by Gianni Russo; Patrick Picciarelli (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The rollicking adventures of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleo ...Show more
Barefoot in the Bindis by Angela Wales
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Sheep Farming 1950's Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm i ...Show more
After by Nikki Gemmell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Nikki Gemmell's world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. No note was left, so the questions that Elayn's euthanasia d ...Show more
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, has been found guilty of five sexual crimes against children.Updated edition. He is the most senior Catholic figure in the world to be charged by police and convicted of child sex offences. The abuse involved choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick's ...Show more
The Jones Family Food Roster: How Community, Family and Faith Helped One Woman Thrive in the Face of Cancer by Alison Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
When Alison, a mother of five school aged children, is diagnosed with a rare and incurable cancer she is initially overwhelmed. As a busy working mother she agonises about her future and the effect her treatment regime will have on her family. Then, one of Alison's friends sets up a roster and a home-c ...Show more
Something to Believe In by Andrew Stafford
$32.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Music | Reading Level: 3 Biography
For Andrew Stafford, music was a way up and a way out. There was just one little problem: he couldn’t play. Because those who can do and those who can’t review, he carved out a niche writing about it instead. This is the story of a self-confessed wannabe’s life: of growing up in public, of family, of ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Hachette Essentials) by David Sedaris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt) Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause ...Show more
Guinea Pig in White Wine Sauce by Alan Rochford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Alan Rochford was living the dream when he started Stone Cottage, an idyllic French restaurant nestled in the Adelaide Hills. He had everything going for him apart from experience, money, and the first idea about what he was doing. After two years and one divorce, he began to see the funny side, fed on ...Show more
Personal History - Katharine Graham by GRAHAM KATHARINE
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women -- a book that is, as its title suggests, both personal and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods: Of mushrooms and mourning by LONG LITT WOON AND BARBARA HAVELAND
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon strugg ...Show more
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A sparkling second book from the bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake in which Crosley leaves her familiar stomping ground of Manhattan to travel The World: elegant writing, mordant wit and genuine insight.