Tough Customer - Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers by Allan Fels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Memoirs
Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, especially when the big end of town is exploiting small businesses or consumers. During his twelve years as head of Australia's competition watchdog, he took on banks, airlines, supermarkets and big telcos to make sure Australians were getting a fa ...Show more
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the G ...Show more
Godspeed: A Memoir by Casey Legler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3
'I swim for every chance to get wasted - after every meet, every weekend, every travel trip. This is what I look forward to and what I tell no one: the burn of it down my throat, to my soul curled up in my lungs, the sharpest pain all over it - it seizes and stretches, becoming alive again, and is the o ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
Everything Is -: a Book about Hope by Mark Manson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Self Improvement
From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it's ever been--we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, ...Show more
Blood on the Rosary by Sue Smethurst; Margaret Harrod
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A heartfelt, brave and inspiring memoir about the power of speaking out A brave nun. Her twin brother. The secrets and lies that would tear them apart. There is a special bond that twins share, an ethereal connection that can't be put into words. Margaret Harrod shared that unique bond with her twin b ...Show more
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Australian Surfer | Reading Level: 3 Biography
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...Show more
Inside the Greens: The True Story of the Party, the Politics and the People by Paddy Manning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A revelatory examination of the history and the future of the Australian Greens. After a decade of unprecedented political volatility, Australians appear increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties. Yet the Greens, the third force in Australian politics since the turn of the century, get comp ...Show more
An Awesome Ride by Andrew Clarke; Cameron Smith; Cameron Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Hi guys. I have some bad news I want to tell you all.' So said seventeen-year-old Shaun Miller on YouTube in April 2012, shortly after receiving a devastating diagnosis about his heart condition. The clip has now been viewed millions of times. In 1994, when Cameron Miller found out he was going to be a ...Show more
The Fine Cotton Fiasco by Peter Hoysted Pat Sheil
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 6 Sport
Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong?In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how - through a co ...Show more
Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix?s Emmy award-winning Queer Eye, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few peop ...Show more
2028... and Australia has gone to hell in a handbasket by Ken Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The ...Show more