Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cr ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 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 seve ...Show more
The Devil and James McAuley by Cassandra Pybus
$26.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'In this stylish, confronting and marvellously written biography, scarifying precision and measured compassion are held in delicate balance as Cassandra Pybus relentlessly anatomises the demons that drove James McAuley through a lifetime of labyrinthine politics, art and nightmare." Brian Matthews
A Forger's Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court cas ...Show more
Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World by Henion Leigh Ann
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Heartfelt and awe-inspiring, Leigh Ann Henion's Phenomenal is a moving tale of physical grandeur and emotional transformation, a journey around the world that ultimately explores the depths of the human heart. A journalist and young mother, Henion combines her own varied experiences as a parent with a p ...Show more
Sheer Madness : Sex, Lies and Politics by Jan Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In her vivid, poignant and sometimes biting memoir, Jan tells a story of resistance - against her fifth grade teacher, against a Home Science education, against the patriarchy and finally against herself.
Notebooks by Betty Churcher
$44.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the artworks and the processes of their creation. ...Show more
And the Judges Said... by James Kelman
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
James Kelman has long been regarded as one of the finest writers of fiction in the world. In this brilliant collection of essays he deals with matters literary, artistic, political and philosophical. In the essay ' "And the Judges Said..." ' Kelman outlines some of the influences that led him to create ...Show more