Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, ...Show more
Home Work: A Memoir of My Years in Hollywood (HB) by Julie Andrews
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound ...Show more
Madam Secretary (PB) by Madeleine Albright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic ...Show more
Always the Children - A Nurse's Story of Home and War by Anne Watts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in 1940, Anne Watts grew up in a small Welsh village and, like her tough-as-old-boots Merchant Navy father, she had a traveller's heart. Inspired by school geography lessons that told of far-off lands, Anne was determined to break out of the conventional options open to women in post-war Britain. S ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017, she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election, at which she claimed the top job.
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie by Carly Simon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA chance encounter at Martha's Vineyard party blossomed into an enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair -- Carly, a free and artistic spirit; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated and unknowable women in American history. ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power, and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense o ...Show more
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
Tales from the Secret Annexe by Anne Frank
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anne Frank is known worldwide for her moving and powerful Diary written whilst hiding from the Nazis. Less well known are these stories, fables, personal reminiscences and an unfinished novel - now re-issued after being out of print for many years. Her humour, unflinching honesty and her wisdom - all ev ...Show more
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler by Douglas Thompson, Christine Margaret Sloane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Christine Keeler died in December 2017, aged seventy-five, more than fifty years after her central role in the scandal that rocked a country and brought down a government. Her death, however, makes it possible to bring her own story up to date, with new material that she had not wanted published in her ...Show more
Christmas Ideas (LEGO) by Elizabeth Dowsett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Need to keep a little LEGO fan entertained over the holiday season? Packed full of original, inspirational build ideas for LEGO holiday decorations, gifts, and games, LEGO Christmas Ideasis perfect for LEGO fans and children who enjoy building and crafting. Building ideas include tree decorations, a fam ...Show more