No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings; Erin Meyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies. There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it ge ...Show more
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Mata ...Show more
Particular Woman by Ashley Dawson-Damer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Embracing the excitement and turbulence of sixties Sydney, Ashley is set to make her mark amid uni classes filled with ambitious young males. She imagines her future with a successful career, husband, and a house full of children. But life is never quite that easy. In this compelling memoir, Ashley sha ...Show more
One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao's New China. Yet he knew if he devoted hi ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
Speaking Up by Gillian Triggs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Gillian Triggs invites you to speak up "As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did t ...Show more
Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia by Allen, Max
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The fiery burn of rebellion rum, a thirst-quenching gulp of ice-cold beer, the medicinal tang of restorative bitters... What did the drinks that shaped Australia first taste like? In search of answers, award-winning writer Max Allen takes us on a personal journey through Australia's colourful and comple ...Show more
The Forking Trolley - An Ethical Journey to the Good Place by James M. Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A new armchair guide to ethics and moral philosophy, from the trolley problem to the balloon debate. Inspired by the hugely popular Netflix sitcom The Good Place, which uses a comic format to examine moral dilemmas and schools of ethical thought, this is a brief tour of the main issues that face humans ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore's full account, based on unique acc ...Show more
Friday on My Mind - The Life Of George Young by Jeff Apter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Pop star, mentor and icon, George Young was one of the most important figures in Australian pop music history. Jeff Apter reveals the little-known facts that helped create a music empire. George Young wasn't so much on the charts for the best part of three decades: he and his musical partner Harry Vand ...Show more
How I Clawed My Way to the Middle by John Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!' I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke - had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of hig ...Show more
Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Silvana Paternostro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Prize-winning journalist SILVANA PATERNOSTRO grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia, home to Garcia Marquez's fabled literary group, La Cueva. In 1999, she was selected by Time/CNN as one of "Fifty Latin American Leaders for the Millennium," and is the author of In the Land of God and Man, nominated for the ...Show more