George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him' ... A memoir of love, obsession and feathers. "Then, just in time, before I swung the spade again, I saw, right by the blade and camouflaged by the leaves on the ground, a magpie chick. It squatted belligerently, peering up at ...Show more
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world by Jessica Watson
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit.TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, theitinerary, what she did to ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond by Prudence Wheelwright
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Nurse and midwife Prue Wheelwright has worked in the most remote parts of Australia and around the world. In isolated, far-flung locations and on dangerous frontlines, this passionate and dedicated nurse has put her heart, and often her safety, on the line, day after day, year after year. Prue shares al ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
75.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
The Girl Who Touched The Stars by Bonnie Hancock
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping account of the record-breaking circumnavigation by iron woman Bonnie Hancock. It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. 254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest ever ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: Biography
The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and bec ...Show more
In Bad Faith: Inside a secret ultra-Orthodox sect and the brutal betrayal it tried to hide by Dassi Erlich
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more