Dying of Politeness - A Memoir by Geena Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her "journey to badassery"--from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood.At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, wi ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London - New Edition by George Orwell, Hugo Rifkind (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly docu ...Show more
Second Chance: The heartwarming true story of a neglected horse who became a Mounted Police hero by Diana Thurgood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A life-affirming true story of kindness, courage and one horse's extraordinary journey from a derelict paddock to the esteemed stables of the Mounted Police. On a hot summer's day in Northern New South Wales, Mounted Police officer Tiffany spotted an advertisement for a horse in the local paper - a Cly ...Show more
Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about s ...Show more
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased ...Show more
Zelensky The Frontline President by Andrew L. Urban, Chris Mcleod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The message from the free world to Russian President Putin has always been clear: Leave Ukraine alone... get out! What Russia thought would be a three-day hit-and-run mission to oust the Ukraine government of Volodymyr Zelensky was an abject failure. The message from the free world to Russian President ...Show more
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia by David Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more
Every Living Thing by James Herriot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
<b>The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series <i>All Creatures Great and Small.</i></b> In <i>Every Living Thing </i>James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucr ...Show more
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
A Beautiful Awakening - From Pain and Suffering to Peace and Joy by Fiona Bruty
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
At adolescence Fiona had a massive mental breakdown, descended into chronic mental illness enduring much suffering over many years.She was introduced to a Christian church and the life of Jesus."I am at a point in my life where I simply cannot do it anymore. I am completely worn out from running this ra ...Show more
Barry Crocker - Last Of The Entertainers by Crocker Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Everyone has an interpretation of what the ‘all round entertainer’ should be. The term once invoked the image of a singer who could dance a little, tell jokes and hold an audience’s attention with anecdotes of his life and career. In my world, in order to wear this label successfully, the description of ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J Fox
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future. His two previous bestselling me ...Show more