The Price of Fortune: The Untold Story of Being James Packer by Damon Kitney
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth.'I was like Icarus', the billionaire tells his biographer, journalist Damon Kitney, of the heady days of 2016 when he broke up with pop star Mariah Carey, abandoned living in H ...Show more
Overlander by Rupert Guinness
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
A powerful memoir about an epic bike race across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. This would be no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness ...Show more
A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case by Antonio Buti
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy. When relatives agreed to take Bruce to hospital, Joe was relieved - his son was in safe hands - but, within days, Bruce would be living with another family, and Joe would never see his son again. ...Show more
Red Dust Rising - The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga by Marion Houldsworth; Les Hiddins (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the inspiring story of a northern cattleman who built up the Urapunga cattle station from nothing. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he lived rough and worked hard. He worked closely with the tribal Aborigines, made Urapunga a dry station, coped with the many crocodiles in the Roper River, fought aga ...Show more
Daddy Cool: Finding my father, the singer who swapped Hollywood fame for home in Australia by Darleen Bungey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
A captivating, generous and exquisitely written memoir of family and a daughter discovering her father's multi-layered life. 'Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister's discoveries astonished me.' Geraldine Brooks Who can ever truly know their parents? He was a gl ...Show more
Rachel: Brumby hunter, medicine woman, bushrangers' ally and troublemaker for good . . . the remarkable pioneering life of Rachel Kennedy by Jeff McGill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Rachel Kennedy stood out on a wild frontier dominated by men . . . her extraordinary and unputdownable pioneering story is told for the first time 'Just a girl, but when it came to chasing wild horses nobody questioned Rachel Kennedy's skill in a saddle. What raised eyebrows was the type of saddle she u ...Show more
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One thing’s for sure: it’s not easy. But then, there’s always been something special about Eddie Betts. Betts grew up in Port Lincoln and ...Show more
Wife's Heart The Untold Story of Bertha and Henry Lawson by Kerrie Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Henry Lawson is a revered cultural icon, but despite his literary success he descended into poverty and an early death. While many blamed his wife for his decline, Bertha Lawson alleged in April 1903 that Henry was habitually drunk and cruel, leading her to demand a judicial separation. In A Wife’s Hear ...Show more
Call of the Outback by Marianne van Velzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback.After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this country's vas ...Show more
Cruden Farm Garden Diaries (HB) by Michael Morrison; Lisa Clausen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Cruden Farm was given to the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in 1928 as a wedding present from her husband Sir Keith Murdoch. The farm at Langwarrin, about 50 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, was a place she cherished throughout her long life. The beautiful garden she created there with gardener Michael ...Show more
Fabulous Phil: The Phil Carman Story by Matt Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Every generation has a player who leaves opponents, teammates, coaches and fans slack-jawed and breathless. Phil Carman was the player of his generation, capable of turning a game in five minutes with inspirational marks and goals. Carman was the first full-time professional footballer, the fittest play ...Show more
The Fair and the Foul: Inside Our Sporting Nation by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
If anyone is qualified to talk about sport in Australia, it's David Hill. In this book, with the benefit of his years of personal experience both playing and working in the sporting world, he vividly narrates its rise in Australia since the end of the nineteenth century, from the first cricket tour of E ...Show more