Train to Nowhere: One Woman's War, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator by Anita Leslie
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print' Robert McCrum, Observer'If Evelyn Waugh's Mrs Algernon Stitch had been possessed of a heart, a sense of humour, and a glorious prose style, it coul ...Show more
100 Songs by Bob Dylan
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
WINNER OF THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE '100 Songs is a good start, for anybody lucky enough to be starting out with such a genius' The London Evening Standard A new collection of Bob Dylan's most essential lyrics - one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureate's incredible musical range t ...Show more
Elizabeth and Elizabeth by Sue Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony.
House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann by Evelyn Juers
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicide in 1944 and Heinrich dies in 1950. Prior to their death they formed a unique cliqu ...Show more
Windswept and Interesting - My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | 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
I Survived Kerobokan Behind the Bars of Bali's Most Notorious Prison by PAUL CONIBEER
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
I Survived Kerobokan is the harrowing story of an innocent man jailed in Bali's infamous Kerobokan Prison. Paul Conibeer, a tourist, had his wallet and phone stolen by street kids and was falsely imprisoned for ten months after being unable to pay his hotel bill. Never bowing to Indonesia's corrupt just ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future by Mark McKenna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history war ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$27.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
John Cleese So, Anyway... by John Cleese
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes readers on a Gra ...Show more
Gary Ablett: An Autobiography by Gary Ablett
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Gary Ablett: An Autobiography celebrates AFL legend Gary Ablett's stellar career. Reliving key moments and events in his life, this memoir not only explores Gary's great success at the very top of the AFL, but also his journey to get there. Drafted in 2001, Gary's incredible career has spanned two grea ...Show more
Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Condition: **NEW** During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. Marks began to de ...Show more