This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Reading Level: very good
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$59.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
The Cooked Seed by Anchee Min
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1994, Anchee Min published Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. It became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, Min returns to give us the next chapter, as she moves from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of t ...Show more
Where Underpants Come From: From Checkout to Cotton Field - Travels in the New China by Joe Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how are the pants made? And who decides on t ...Show more
Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE & OTHER DRUGS by Jamie Reidy
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's exper ...Show more
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side: A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the process, and may very well have had sex with your wife back ...Show more
Jali by Oliver Twist
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
'Twist is a star.' The Sydney Morning HeraldComedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has turned the turmoil he and his family endured into a thrilling adventure of a hero's journey. ...Show more
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM by Waris Dirie
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of the slums of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, was ch ...Show more
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Adventures of a Young Naturalist: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS by David Attenborough
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Living legend and presenter of BBC's Planet Earth series Sir David Attenborough tells the story of his early career as a broadcaster and a naturalist in his own words. In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare a ...Show more