Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
$5.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences travelling the world and visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider h ...Show more
The Favourite : Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Ophelia Field
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
** NEW ** The scandalous true history of the duchess who became her beloved queen's blackmailer, published in a new and updated edition to coincide with the major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz with Olivia Colman and Emma Stone. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was ...Show more
Hello Beautiful - Scenes from a Life by Hannie Rayson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"I realise that, despite all the references to my longing to be a writer, two things are apparent. The first is that I don't actually do much writing; the second is that my teenage reflections display absolutely no talent for it. My Diary is prima facie evidence of self-delusion on a grand scale." A mem ...Show more
The Upside (FTI) by Abdel Sellou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Little One: A Story of Family, Love and Sacrifice, and an Extraordinary Secret by Peter Papathanasiou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
This is a powerful story about family and adoption, and the tensions and joys at work between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia.
The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInerny
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
Here is one important thing we all have in common: literally everyone we know and love will die. That one uplifting and crowd-pleasing fact is not enough to make it easier when it actually happens. Other bad things happen, too, and sometimes they happen in quick succession, as they did to Nora McInerny. ...Show more
First Lady : The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Win ...Show more
Just Another Mountain by Sarah Jane Douglas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
An uplifting memoir from a strong female voice that shows the redemptive power of mountain walking.
First, they Erased Our Name: A Rohingya speaks by Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
"I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don't yet know that I am stateless." Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he is three y ...Show more
Reagan - An American Journey by Bob Spitz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan so beloved and so transformational. More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with ...Show more