Slow: Live Life Simply by Brooke Mcalary
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the creator of the award-winning Slow Home podcast comes Slow--the perfect companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life. Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderful man, mother to a lively young daughter and pregnant for ...Show more
An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life by Joe Hildebrand
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
Joe Hildebrand is the man you see on TV, the man you read in the Daily Telegraph, the man you might follow on Twitter (where he's rated as one of the Top Ten most influential Tweeters in Australia), the man with an opinion on everything and anything, especially the dire straits of the current political ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
"Compelling. Brilliant. Revealing. Funny. Inspirational. Extraordinary. Sir Richard Branson s amazing memoir is now updated to include the effect on the Virgin Group of 11 September, his views on the war in Iraq, the rise of Virgin Blue and the flotation of Virgin Mobile. Discover how Virgin is moving i ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who ...Show more
Shanghai Tango : A memoir by Jin Xing with Catherine Texier
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This unusual memoir describes how China's foremost male ballet dancer (and colonel in the People's Army) underwent China's first sex-change operation and became the Shanghai Ballet's prima ballerina. First published in French 2005; this edition 2007
Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007 by Kevin Rudd
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2007, Kevin Rudd became only the third Labor prime minister since the Second World War, after Whitlam and Hawke, to win government from opposition. In doing so he also defeated, and unseated, John Howard, the longest-serving conservative prime minister since Menzies.So who was the man behind the phen ...Show more
The Lyndi Tree by Ginn Fourie
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Ginn tells us a giant story in which her own beliefs and experiences, as inheritor of white colonial narratives, stand parallel with her Nation and Africa's proud, defiant and resilient indigenous warriors; impacting each other in the complex struggle for liberation and meaning. Ginn navigates massive i ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
A revised and updated edition of the bestseller from Virgin founder Richard Branson. Already a great read---fascinatingly mixing autobiography and business how-to---the book is now right up to the moment, with the latest bold moves from this irrepressible, charismatic entrepreneur and his rule-breaking, ...Show more
The Girl Who Beat Isis: My Story by Farida Khalaf & Andrea C. Hoffman
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and bro ...Show more
Just Tell Me When to Cry - Encounters with the Greats, Near-Greats and Ingrates of Hollywood by Richard Fleischer
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
All I Can Be by BUCKLEY Nathan
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Arguably the greatest player to represent Australia's most famous football club, Nathan Buckley has had an extraordinary career that boasts a Brownlow Medal, a Norm Smith Medal, six club best and fairest awards, and nine seasons as captain of Collingwood. A true professional and an astute self-analyst, ...Show more