The School That Hope Built: The inspirational Australian woman using education to fight poverty in Africa by Madeleine Kelly, Gemma Sisia
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An extraordinary account of Gemma Sisia's twenty years as the founder of St Jude's, a school that is changing the lives of some of the poorest children in Tanzania. From a country town in Australia to a small village in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia has built a truly remarkable legacy. In 2002, Gemma founded Th ...Show more
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Evil stepmother. Astute businesswomen. Just a smattering of the many labels attached to the irrepressible Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. But who was the real Raine? What was hidden behind the immaculat ...Show more
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway AwardWinner of the NBCC's John Leonard AwardShortlisted for the British Book Award - Debut of the YearA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, E ...Show more
May Gibbs More Than A Fairytale by Robert Holden
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography
May Gibbs is one of Australia's most loved illustrators - her gumnut babies have been adored by generations of children. In May Gibbs: More than a fairy tale her early life and artistic career are explored in detail. Encouraged by her artistic parents, who met at London's famous Slade School of Art, a y ...Show more
Daring to Fly by Lisa Millar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There are significant moments in life that you only really appreciate long after they have passed ... And then there are moments that are so magnificent you understand in an instant that they need to be treasured because the universe is offering you something truly inspiring. Lisa Millar has spent her ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
Clanlands - Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander- Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of O ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self - A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year 'Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catc ...Show more
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sig ...Show more
Peter Brock by Beverley Brock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book provides unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter Brock, on and off the road. It features personal photographs, memorabilia and reflections from the man himself, the Brock family and those who knew him best. Containing precious keepsakes from his private life and illustrious ca ...Show more