Johnathan Thurston: The Autobiography by Johnathan Thurston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The autobiography of the league legend. Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldog ...Show more
The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives by Chris Spriggs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do people come together when tragedy tries to tear them apart? When 39-time marathon runner Andrew Spriggs was diagnosed with motor neurone disease he knew his running days were over. But a surprise message from his nephew Chris, offering to push him in his rickety wheelchair in one last marathon, r ...Show more
Displaced - A Rural Life by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John Kinsella's memoir of his rural life takes us deep into the heart of what it means to belong and unbelong. The joys and travails of childhood, adult addictions, missteps and changing directions are acutely captured in poignant and poetic detail. While centred on Jam Tree Gully in rural Western Austr ...Show more
Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
$20.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnis ...Show more
The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near-perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various toilet mishaps. She soon realised that she was the Doug Pitt to her ...Show more
Charles: Our Future King by Robert Jobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson's biography provides a fresh insight into the extraordinary life of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales as he passes his seventieth birthday at a watershed in the history of the modern British mon ...Show more
The School of Restoration: The Story of One Ugandan Woman Who Has Given Hope to Hundreds of Female Survivors of War and Violence by Alice Achan; Philippa Tyndale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful and uplifting story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female victims of war and violence. Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA, and then ...Show more
Child Bride by Finstad Suzanne
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The myth-shattering account of the most famous and most taboo love story in rock-and-roll history Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley's love affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before mar ...Show more
Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me. ...Show more
Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model. Iconoclast. by Sarah Jane Adams
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The wonderfully compelling and unorthodox memoir of 63-year old international model and iconoclast, @mywrinklesaremystripes' Sarah Jane Adams. Auction catalogues can reveal a lot about a person: their life, their loves and their style. Antique jewellery dealer Sarah Jane Adams became an international mo ...Show more
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson by Alison Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: BEFORE & AFTER
Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more