Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian Defen ...Show more
The Most Important Job In The World by Gina Rushton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world as it is now and as it will be. When Gina Rushton admitted she had little time left to make the decision for herself, the magnitude of the choice overwh ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family Archive by Alistair Campbell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia's greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson. Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs, poems and stories have been brought together for the first time. Banjo's great-grandson and sole executor of the po ...Show more
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story. In this fast-paced and compelling book, Brett Mason reveals how two childhood friends from Adelaide – physicist Mark Oliph ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An insightful and moving biography detailing the extraordinary life of award-winning and bestselling author Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his friend, former assistant, and now head of the author's literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terr ...Show more
Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Rock stars to royalty, society to sobriety, get to know the real Susannah Constantine in the hottest memoir of the year'Sensational, juicy, gossipy, filthy and bravely honest in equal measure, Susannah Constantine's memoir is a rollicking romp through the upper middle classes' SUNDAY TIMES, 'BEST BIOGRA ...Show more
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List by James Mustich
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetr ...Show more
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$55.00 AUD
$65.00 (15% off)
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A Harte
$37.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with the New Zealand Prime Minister herself. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017, with a wave of popular adulation dubbed ‘Jacindaman ...Show more