The Quiz Masters: Inside the World of Trivia, Obsession and Million Dollar Prizes by Brydon Coverdale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The Shark' reveals the hidden stories and winning strategies from the world of quiz shows. 'This romp through the world of TV quizzes is "F for Fourier Series" Fantastic!' ADAM SPENCER 'Australian quiz culture has found its Herodotus* in Brydon Coverdale. And if you say otherwise, par-bouw! [*Father of ...Show more
Swimming Home: A Memoir by Judy Cotton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Introducing a major new Australian literary voice - an unforgettable memoir of the complicated love between a mother and daughter. 'Easily the most vivid memoir I have ever read' -Sebastian Smee 'I am sitting at my father's desk, waiting to call Intensive Care . . . It is September, the wattle is flow ...Show more
James Patterson: The Stories of My Life by James Patterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The official autobiography of James Patterson, where he tells the story of his life and his journey to becoming a world-renowned author who continues to captivate readers across the globeHow did a boy from small-town New York become one of the world's most successful writers? On the morning he was born, ...Show more
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I - 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath; Peter K. Steinberg (Editor); Karen Kukil (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been publ ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
Gods and Demons by Deborah Cassrels; Deborah Cassrels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Behind the tourist veneer of Bali and greater Indonesia: a foreign correspondent's memoirA year after the 2005 Bali bomb atrocities, journalist Deborah Cassrels found herself on an odyssey to the Indonesian resort island grappling with her own existential crisis. Instead, she catapulted into a posting a ...Show more
Iconic People of Colour: The Amazing True Stories Behind Inspirational People of Colour by Elizabeth Ajao
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's time to meet your new superheroes Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic people of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are activists, athletes, scientists or superstars, every one of them has been a trailblazer in their field and has paved the ...Show more
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie the Pooh by Ann Thwaite
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. But the fictional Christopher ...Show more
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook ...Show more
The Consultant by Jay Malkoun
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jay Malkoun isn't the type of man who lets a little thing like being blown up slow him down. In March 2019, a car bomb outside a gym in Athens detonated the Mercedes Jay's his children had been riding in less than an hour earlier. It was an explosion heard around the world, as global media, law enforcem ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more