My Adventurous Life by Dick Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
ABIA 2022 Biography Book of the Year Entrepreneur, adventurer, philanthropist ... Australian icon Dick Smith shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. 'Part Bear Grylls, part Bill Gates, but 100% Aussie larrikin. Dick is a great innovator, philanthropist and adventurer, who in my eyes can ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
One of most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more
Twiggy : The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest by Andrew Burrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The swashbuckling West Australian entrepreneur Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest took on mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto at their own game - and won. In this unauthorised biography, Andrew Burrell traces Twiggy's business triumphs and disasters to reveal the complicated man behind the myth. Why do his mi ...Show more
Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees, Bobuq Sayed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Nothing to Hide is the first ever anthology of Australian trans and gender diverse writing, a pioneering contribution to Australian letters. The past decade has been a tumultuous time in trans politics. The so-called 'transgender tipping point' pronounced by Time in 2014 has led to unprecedented trans ...Show more
The Year My Family Unravelled by Cynthia Dearborn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A superbly written and surprising memoir about hope, redemption, self-worth, and the tangled and often contradictory impulses of love. Cynthia Dearborn is struggling to convince her father, who has vascular dementia, to move into an aged care facility. He won't budge. Further complicating matters is th ...Show more
Dog Days: A Year with Olive and Mabel by Andrew Cotter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Now with more than 87 million views on YouTube, lockdown superstar Labradors Olive and Mabel are back with a second book about their meteoric year of fame.In Dog Days- A Year with Olive & Mabel, join Andrew Cotter as he takes you behind the scenes and into the pages of his diary to reveal just how e ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phenomenon and youngest ever major literary prize winner in UK history. 'This diary chronicles the turning of my world, from spring to winter, at home, in the wild, in my head.' Evocative, raw and lyrical, this startling debut explores the nat ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.First publi ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir by Grace Tame
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"NOW IN PAPERBACK The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner is Grace's story, in Grace's words, on Grace's terms. Here she returns, again and again, to the things that have driven and saved her: love, connection and radical, unwavering honesty. Like Grace, this book is sharply intelligent, deeply felt, wildly u ...Show more
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
Kindness: What Surviving on the Kindness of Strangers Taught Me About Perspective, Connection and Happiness by Kath Koschel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving story of hope, resilience and the life-changing power of kindness, from the founder of the global not-for-profit, Kindness Factory. Kath Koschel has faced almost unimaginable hurdles. In her mid-twenties, she broke her back and was told she may never walk again. Shortly afterwards, she lost he ...Show more