The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A love cradled by nature's greatest architecture- a national parkHe was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that filled their waking hours. Others might ha ...Show more
Still Standing by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
There are few more moving experiences than for the silenced to be heard. Chrissie Foster is the mother who brought the rich and powerful Catholic Church to its knees over its global abuse of children, including two of her daughters, Emma and Katie. Like the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, she built an un ...Show more
Daring to Fly: The TV star on facing fear and finding joy on a deadline by Lisa Millar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The utterly inspirational story behind one of our country's most superb journalists. To have played even the tiniest of roles in helping to ignite Lisa's early fire for journalism gives me more joy than she will ever know.'LISA WILKINSON Lisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things d ...Show more
Not Like Other Dads by Sean Szeps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A funny, fearlessly frank and inspiring memoir about raising kids when the old rules don't apply.Sean had wanted to be a mum since the age of four, when he fell in love with Mrs Potts, the motherly teapot in Beauty and the Beast. But there was just one problem: he was not, in fact, a woman.When he was s ...Show more
The War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family by Nigel Cawthorne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$10.00 AUD
$34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more
The girl who left: From Croatia to the canefields by Debra Gavranich
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920 ...Show more
Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American by Damien Cave
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the local pursuits of Nippers and surfing - and a completely different approach to risk that changed the way they lived their lives.Damien Cave has always been fascinated by risk. Having ...Show more
The Vetting of Wisdom - Joan Montgomery and the Fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the story of the biggest school blow-up in Australian history, The Vetting of Wisdom is a gripping tale of a revered Principal-acclaimed nationwide as the leading girls' school educator of her day-loved and admired by all - but with a determined Presbyterian Church minority bent on getting rid of her ...Show more
Putting on a Show by Rob Mills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What's going on behind the bravado of the 'average Aussie bloke'? Following the untimely deaths of two friends, Rob Mills began questioning who he is as a person and a man. Soon his self-reflection shifted outwards, and he got to wondering how he fits into the category of 'Aussie bloke'. Who is the aver ...Show more