How I Got My Wiggle Back by Anthony Field
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Part biography, part fitness and health manual, How I Got My Wiggle Back chronicles the life of internationally acclaimed children's entertainer Anthony Field, and details his remarkable victory in a 25-year battle with illness and injury. A riveting and enlightening read, Field candidly reveals his per ...Show more
Freeing Peter by Juris Greste
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
"Freeing Peter tells the extraordinary true story of how an ordinary Australian family took on the Egyptian government to get Peter Greste out of prison. What would you do if a loved one were to suddenly find themselves in the most impossible of situations? That's the question addressed in Freeing Peter ...Show more
Down the Dirt Roads by Rachael Treasure
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
'For me, being in a paddock means anything is possible ' Country girl and bestselling novelist Rachael Treasure seemed to have it all, a long-dreamed-of lifestyle on her own patch of dirt in Tasmania's rugged and beautiful wilderness. But through the breakdown of her marriage, Rachael lost her family fa ...Show more
Lovers, The by Rod Nordland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
"She is his Juliet and he is her Romeo, and her family has threatened to kill them both..." This is the heartrending account of Zakia and Mohammad Ali, a couple from opposing ethnic sects, who defying their society's norms have left behind everything they know and are quite literally risking their lives ...Show more
My Family's Keeper by Brad Haddin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A cricket autobiography unlike any other; a universal story about how love for your family trumps everything. Specialist Australian wicket-keepers to wear the baggy green are a rare and tough breed. Since 1877, only a select few Australian cricketers have held the sport's toughest on-field position. By ...Show more
The Bridge to Brilliance - How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World by Nadia Lopez; Rebecca Paley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who "stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges A ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-thre ...Show more
Beautiful Thing : Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer by Sonia Faleiro
$10.00 AUD
$29.95 (66% off)
Category: Biographies
When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find- downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty. Instead she meets Leela- nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay's bars since she wa ...Show more
The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Samar Yazbek was well known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she bravely revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the T ...Show more
Malala by Yousafzai Malala
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world.' - J.K. Rowling Written by Malala in collaboration with critically acclaimed author, Patricia McCormick, this children's edition tells the remarkable story of a girl who knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world - and did. ...Show more
Me of the Never Never: A chaotic memoir about family, friends and finding out that all the world's a stage (I'm going through) by Fiona O'Loughlin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Fiona O'Loughlin is one of the busiest working mothers in Australia today: a stand-up comedian based in Alice Springs and Adelaide, she is on the road for most of the year, doing live performances, plus regular television appearances. This book contains her stories.