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Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens after the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
Becoming: Michelle Obama by Michelle Obama
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African American to ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A riveting, thoughtful and deeply moving book which thoroughly investigates terrorism and politics in Northern Ireland, the wickedness of all sides, and the human tragedy for one family in parti ...Show more
Paul Kelly: the Man, the Music & the Life in Between by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Renowned music journalist Stuart Coupe examines the life of an Australian music icon - honest, revealing and a must-read for Paul Kelly fans and music lovers alike. He's been called Australia's Bob Dylan and likened to Springsteen and Neil Young, but Paul Kelly stands alone as a chronicler of his and ou ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
A Bigger Picture (Malcolm Turnbull, HB) by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir by John Cook; Jon Bauer
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as: 'The Keeper of the Flame'. John's renowned as one of the last of the "kerosene keepers": he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchan ...Show more
Gut by Giulia Enders
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works. In Gut, Giulia Enders shows that rather than the utilitarian and - let's be honest - somewhat embarrassing body part we imagine it to be, ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and sev ...Show more
