Finding Gobi - The True Story of a Little Dog with a Lot of Stamina by Dion Leonard
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the ...Show more
Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation by Hannah Gadsby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global s ...Show more
Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother's Story by Brenda Niall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was w ...Show more
In Shock: From Doctor to Patient - What I Learned About Medicine's Inhumanity by Dr. Rana Awdish
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Category: Biographies
At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring multiple major surgeries and a series of organ failures. ...Show more
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive historical ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his l ...Show more
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
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$39.99 (49% off)
Category: Biographies
The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. "I ...Show more
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius. Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
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Category: Biographies
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
Promise Me Dad by Joe Biden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect, a time ...Show more
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Jeremy Dronfield
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biographies
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Night ...Show more
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to ...Show more