Decomposition - A Music Manifesto by Andrew Durkin
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A bracing, revisionary and provocative inquiry into music--from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie--as a personal and cultural experience: how it is actually composed, often wrongfully perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it the way we do. Andrew Durkin, ...Show more
The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World by Jonathan Black
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect us The Sacred History is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels, from Creation, to Evolution through to the operations of th ...Show more
Australia Rocks: Remembering the Music of the 1950s to 1990 by Lucy Desoto
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Australian rock music has a rich history of performers and bands that have created not just the soundtrack for Australian lives but have also shaped the international music scene. In the early days of the 1950s and '60s, Australian rock saw performers like Johnny O'Keefe and The Easybeats. The 1970s saw ...Show more
Power of Good People: Surviving the Sri Lankan Civil War by Para Paheer
$24.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In May 2009 Sri Lanka's long and dreadful civil war was finally brought to an horrific end. Ruthlessly driven to a small strip of land on the tip of the island's north-east coast, tens of thousands of innocent civilians died, smashed by artillery, killed by snipers, denied medical treatment and starved ...Show more
On the Inside: Life Behind Bars by Australia's Most Famous Criminal by John Killick
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
John Killick fed his gambling addiction by robbing banks in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s,but this career criminal entered a new phase when he met Russian immigrant Lucy Dudkoat a party in 1995. Infamously remembered for his part in an audacious and desperateescape from prion in a helicopter, today he stan ...Show more
Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007 by Kevin Rudd
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 2007, Kevin Rudd became only the third Labor prime minister since the Second World War, after Whitlam and Hawke, to win government from opposition. In doing so he also defeated, and unseated, John Howard, the longest-serving conservative prime minister since Menzies.So who was the man behind the phen ...Show more
Road To Redemption: A Championship Journey by Scott McLaughlin, Tim Hodges
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Lake Tyrrell, in the Mallee region in north-west Victoria, has become an unlikely tourism hot-spot, with people flocking there to see the beautiful sunrises and sunsets and take in the way the sky is reflected on the lake’s shallow waters. Photographer Anne Morley has produced the best-known collection ...Show more
A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia's All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: near fine
This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Amelia Earhart. It's the real-life story of a daring Australian woman who did something extraordinary - then met an early, mysterious end. From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasur ...Show more
Barbarian Days A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard. "Sports Illustrated" "" "Barbarian Days" is William Finnegan s memo ...Show more
Paris and Other Disappointments by Adam Rozenbachs
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Sick of going overseas and enjoying himself, comedian Adam Rozenbachs decided he should take his father on the trip of a lifetime to Europe. For his dad, it was a chance to return to the place he hasn't seen fleeing post-war Germany as an immigrant. For Adam, it was a chance to repay his dad for everyth ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more