Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is the ...Show more
Train to Nowhere: One Woman's War, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator by Anita Leslie
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print' Robert McCrum, Observer'If Evelyn Waugh's Mrs Algernon Stitch had been possessed of a heart, a sense of humour, and a glorious prose style, it coul ...Show more
100 Songs by Bob Dylan
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
WINNER OF THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE '100 Songs is a good start, for anybody lucky enough to be starting out with such a genius' The London Evening Standard A new collection of Bob Dylan's most essential lyrics - one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureate's incredible musical range t ...Show more
Elizabeth and Elizabeth by Sue Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony.
Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$26.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
Windswept and Interesting - My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future by Mark McKenna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history war ...Show more
I Survived Kerobokan Behind the Bars of Bali's Most Notorious Prison by PAUL CONIBEER
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
I Survived Kerobokan is the harrowing story of an innocent man jailed in Bali's infamous Kerobokan Prison. Paul Conibeer, a tourist, had his wallet and phone stolen by street kids and was falsely imprisoned for ten months after being unable to pay his hotel bill. Never bowing to Indonesia's corrupt just ...Show more
John Cleese So, Anyway... by John Cleese
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes readers on a Gra ...Show more
Gary Ablett: An Autobiography by Gary Ablett
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Gary Ablett: An Autobiography celebrates AFL legend Gary Ablett's stellar career. Reliving key moments and events in his life, this memoir not only explores Gary's great success at the very top of the AFL, but also his journey to get there. Drafted in 2001, Gary's incredible career has spanned two grea ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more