Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: Thai Cave Rescue by John Volanthen
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
John Volanthen is a legendary British cave-diver and one of the two-man team who discovered and rescued the Wild Boars soccer team from the sunken cave in Tham Luang, Thailand. Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives is the deeply revealing and nail-biting account of that incredible rescue.
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Little Me The A-Z of Matt Lucas by Matt Lucas
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
This is the story of little me, from pudgy, awkward child to pudgy, slightly less awkward adult - via school musicals, adolescent angst, stand-up,Shooting Stars,Little Britain,Doctor Who, love, loss, wigs and giant pink babygros. And, in case your attention span is as short as mine, it comes in a handy ...Show more
Tell Me Again: A Memoir by Amy Thunig
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It's a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, w ...Show more
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d'Alpuget
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a cha ...Show more
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
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 K ...Show more
Boris Johnson: The Gambler by Tom Bower
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Guardian 'literary highlights of 2020' Sunday Times 'books to watch out for in 2020' New Statesman 'books to read in 2020' Evening Standard 'thirteen titles to look for in 2020' Tom Bower is acknowledged as Britain's leading investigative writer. His 24 bestselling books encompass a remarkably wide rang ...Show more
Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man by Frances Peters-Little
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Biography
In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia’s most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country music legends and icons, Jimmy Little. At just 16 years of age, Jimmy Little travelled to Sydney to make his radio debut on Austral ...Show more
The World Is Not Big Enough: A Personal Journey to Understand One Refugee's Life by Vanessa Russell
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
The World Is Not Big Enough is the story of one woman's journey to understand the human cost of a broken system. At once an investigation into the murder of a refugee and an exploration of Australians' collective guilt, The World Is Not Big Enough explores the ways we are all hurt by Australia's migrat ...Show more
I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story by Anthony Daniels
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Discover the incredible untold story of one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, C-3PO, told by the man who knows him best. "Did you hear that? They've shut down the main reactor! We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness." These words were the very first to be spoken in any Star Wars movie, and the ...Show more