Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics by Jackie Huggins, Ruth Hegarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'Is that you ...?' Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high-spirited dormitory girl Ruthie.In the Depression years Queensland's notoriou ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
Really? by Jeremy Clarkson
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Category: Auto/Biography
Clarkson's Back - and he's reallyhad it this time.From his first job as a travelling sales rep selling Paddington Bears to his latest incarnation as gentleman farmer, Jeremy Clarkson's love of cars has seen him through some deeply trying times.And in a world so persistently infuriating there's sometimes ...Show more
Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Full of extraordinary images of the landscape, ...Show more
Queen of Our Times - The Life of Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain's leading royal authorities. With original insights from those who know her best, unseen papers, new interviews with world leaders and a fresh perspective on the longest reign in British history, Robert Hardman tells the full life s ...Show more
Sing Backwards and Weep: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Mark Lanegan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?"- Nick Cave. "A stoned cold classic" - Ian Rankin. "Powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest"- Lucinda Williams. From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, onstage, backs ...Show more
Janis - Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon? Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shat ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$18.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | 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
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death | Reading Level: very good
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
The Note Through the Wire - A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their incredible true story by Doug Gold
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, from the brutal war in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings by Inga Clendinnen; James Boyce (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger's Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen's life and ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more