Midnight Water : A Memoir by Gaylene Perry
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
On 2 January 1993, a devastating event changed Gaylene Perry and her family forever. On that day her father and one of her brothers drowned. In the hours following the news of the accident, the family came together to grieve and draw strength from each other. This is a powerful account of those hours. ...Show more
Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia?s inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights ...Show more
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This debut from a former Queensland judge's associate breaks the silence around sexual assault and all the ways Australia's court system tries to silence victims. If you're wondering why Australia's #metoo movement hasn't g ...Show more
Krishna - A Sourcebook by Edwin F. Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together new tr ...Show more
A Sense of the Enemy - The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind by Zachary Shore
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
More than 2,000 years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his behavior a ...Show more
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life by Frances Wilson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as “the very wildest . . . person I have ever known,” DorothyWordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her own right, Dorothy was at the center of the Romantic movement ...Show more
The Directory of Classical Themes by Denys Parsons
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Have you ever had a classical tune buzzing round your head and not been able to identify it? In The Directory of Classical Themes, with no greater musical knowledge than the ability to hum the tune, you will be able to find it. Denys Parsons discovered that the only necessary feature to distinguish any ...Show more
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
$22.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: good
This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide.
LETTERS OF NANCY SINGH by SINGH NANCY
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"Throughout history our greatest public figures have written letters back and forth that will be read for centuries to come. Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis are some of the correspondents who come to mind. I am pleased t ...Show more
Ray: Stories of My Life by Ray Martin
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
"The bestselling autobiography of one of Australia's most loved personalities is now in paperback. Ray Martin tells the story of his less than stellar introduction to the glamorous world of television. Before Ray had even got to high school, he had lived in thirteen different places, in three Australian ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm. Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day - Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens after the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
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-chang ...Show more