Debbie Harry: Face It by Debbie Harry
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Debbie Harry has achieved a level of global success and iconic stature that is reserved for very few musicians, and even fewer women. Charismatic lead singer, critically acclaimed solo artist and style icon, her allure is endless and her legacy is enduring. In this, her first memoir, Debbie shares her r ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more
Kathleen O'Connor of Paris by Amanda Curtin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 1906, Kathleen O'Connor left conservative Perth, where her famous father's life had ended in tragedy. She had her sights set on a career in thrilling, bohemian Paris. More than a century later, novelist Amanda Curtin faces her own questions, of life and of art, as she embarks on a journey in Kate's f ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
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.
Instrumental by James Rhodes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such ...Show more
The House At Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Continuing the story of Susan Duncan's bestselling memoir, Salvation Creek, The House picks up after Bob and Susan marry and, two years later, move from her Tin Shed into his "pale yellow house on the high, rough hill", Tarrangaua, built for the iconic Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar. Set against th ...Show more
Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues One Cop's Extraordinary True Story by Cameron Hardiman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police flight suit, grabbed his flight helmet, and prepared to work on the police helicopter. He could be called to anything during a shift, to search for a missing child, to pull an injured driver fro ...Show more
War Gardens: A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm by Lalage Snow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
"This extraordinary book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life." Spectator A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria ...Show more
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement. In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an explosive scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lan ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more