The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
$155.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day ...Show more
Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
With an introduction from HRH Prince William After 100,000 years of human history, we stand at a tipping point where the next decade will determine the future for our species, and our planet. Between human population growth, overconsumption, climate change, pollution and industrialisation, the world we ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth (Illustrated Edition) by Eddie Jaku
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He ...Show more
The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!'), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always ...Show more
Currowan: A story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer by Bronwyn Adcock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed worldCurrowan is the gripping account of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South Wales in 2019-20. Ignited by a lightning strike near the Currowan state forest and bur ...Show more
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler, Kari Gislason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who se ...Show more
Last Shot (HB) by Jock Zonfrillo
$30.00 AUD
$45.00 (33% off)
Category: Biography / Memoir
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to one of Australia's top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire. Jock's life spiralled out o ...Show more
Fracture: Trauma, Success and the Origins of Greatness by Matthew Parris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories. Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frida Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that stil ...Show more
My Year Of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. 'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our liv ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
When Jessie Stephens went through a difficult breakup, she started to look for books or stories that would reflect her experience and perhaps give her some hope for the future. There were plenty of guide books in the '101 tips to cure a broken heart' vein, but what Jessie wanted were stories. She wanted ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more