Puzzled by David Astle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Many a puzzle solver has battled against the devilish mind of long-time crossword maker and wordaholic David Astle, known to many as DA. In Puzzled he holds out a helping hand to the lost and perplexed, taking us on a personal tour into the secret life of words. Clue by clue, chapter by chapter, we step ...Show more
Anna's Story by Bronwyn Donaghy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At 15 Anna Wood went to a party and took an ecstasy tablet. Three days later she was dead. A life destroyed. A family devastated. She was just fifteen. She was leaving school to start the job of her dreams. She was beautiful, she had a loving family and countless friends. Yet on 21 October 1995, Anna Wo ...Show more
My Place - indigenous - FP by Sally Morgan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Recounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace, this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's family--and turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Unearthing political and societa ...Show more
#Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called "Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world.Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for lefto ...Show more
It Takes a Tribe: Building the Tough Mudder Movement by Will Dean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tough Mudder is not a race. It's a challenge.Unlike other endurance events, Tough Mudder encourages team spirit. The course's design forces you to seek help from others and with twenty obstacles, forty tons of ice and five hundred thousand litres of Grade-A mud set over ten to twelve miles, you're g ...Show more
How the West was One by Sue O'Brien (Editorial Coordinator); Karyn Howie (Editorial Coordinator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How the West was One is a superb collection of memoirs, written by Australians, some very well known, who grew up in Melbourne's western suburbs.Ever wondered where Rob Sitch and Michael Leunig started out? Actor Kevin Harrington and musicians Mark Ferrie, Wendy Stapleton and Pat Wilson? You might be su ...Show more
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A searing memoir of survival: the daughter of the jailed former leader of the FLDS Church reveals the true nature of the cult and how she escaped
The Last Snake Man by Jimmy Thomson (As told to); John Cann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. B ...Show more
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justic ...Show more
Rosetta by Alexandra Joel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The scandalous Australian woman who enchanted British society Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinve ...Show more
Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons by Dodie Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Be inspired this New Year by a young woman's journey through life, love and lyrics When I feel like I'm going mad, I write.A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so big I could barely hold them in my head. I was convinced that when they happened, the world would end. But the world did ...Show more
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines; Joanna Gaines; Mark Dagostino (As told to)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly Also, check out Capital Gaines, available now, and The Magnolia Table, coming spring 2018. Are you ready to see your fixer upper? These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip a ...Show more