Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
Beeswax and Tall Tales: Memories of an Aussie Antique Dealer by Jane Crowley, Athol Salter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people's stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased es ...Show more
So This is Life: Scenes from a Country Childhood by Anne Manne
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Category: Auto/Biography
A wonderfully evocative account of youth. At age seven, after her parents' marriage broke down, Anne Manne travelled with her mother and sisters from Adelaide to the Central Victorian countryside to begin a new life. So This Is Life is not a conventional memoir but a haunting and luminous account told t ...Show more
Bond on Bond: The Ultimate Book on Over 50 Years of 007 by Roger Moore
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Category: Auto/Biography
While there have been many actors who have taken on the coveted role of James Bond, the most renowned 007 - and the one with the most panache and charisma - is undoubtedly Sir Roger Moore, KBE. To celebrate the film franchise's wonderful heritage, Roger Moore has written a book that features all the Bon ...Show more
The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist by Michelle Morgan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whos ...Show more
Desert Solitaire: A Season In The Wilderness [50th Anniversary Edition] by Edward Abbey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey capt ...Show more
Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the wa ...Show more
Daring to Drive: A gripping account of one woman's home-grown courage that will speak to the fighter in all of us by Manal Al-Sharif
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN.THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN' ON WOMEN DRIVING. 'Future generations will marvel at M ...Show more
Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist by Dennis Altman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Dennis Altman's long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency. His early writing stemmed from the counter-culture that developed in the States in the mid-1960s. Altman was involved in early Gay Liberation, and his 1971 study Homos ...Show more
#Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called "Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world.Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for lefto ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern (I Know This to Be True): On Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Geoff Blackwell; Jacinda Ardern
$17.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
Thoughts on kindness, empathy and strength from Jacinda Ardern, politician, feminist and champion for social equality.
Still a Pygmy by Isaac Bacirongo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Still a Pygmy is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot. Isaac's inimitable style and voice draw readers into the ...Show more