Breakfast, School Run, Chemo: the Sometimes Funny, Definitely Not Depressing, True Story of a Mum with Cancer by Julia Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I have cancer, but it's not who I am. Mother of four girls Julia Watson thought her world was falling apart when she found out she had terminal cancer. But with humour and courage, Julia faces the greatest challenge of her life - and in the process becomes the person she'd always wanted to be. A survi ...Show more
A Bird on My Shoulder by Lucy Palmer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Over a decade ago, award-winning journalist Lucy Palmer's beloved husband Julian died of cancer, leaving her alone to manage a farm south of Sydney and to raise their three young children. This moving and beautifully written memoir explores her experiences of death, loss, single parenting and growing ol ...Show more
My Name is Mahtob: The Story That Began in the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues by Mahtob Mahmoody
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Two decades ago, Not Without My Daughter (a global phenomenon made into a film starring Sally Field) told of the daring escape of an American mother and her six-year-old child from an abusive and fanatical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter tells the whole story, not only of her imprisonment a ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. Fusing detec ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspirational, bestselling story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. His success and ...Show more
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own Queen, Elizabeth II, as she turns 90. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain's most iconic living f ...Show more
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and quick-witted, her charm was legendary and with her ...Show more
Guantanamo: My Journey by David Hicks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1999 a young man from suburban Adelaide set out on an overseas trip that would change his life forever. Initially, he was after adventure and the experience of travelling the Silk Road. But events would set him on a different path. He would be deemed a terrorist, one of George W Bush's 'worst of the ...Show more
A Gift of Love - How to Care for Loved Ones and Share in Their Last Days by Tony Cointreau
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I wrote A Gift of Love because people kept asking me to do so, telling me that there was a great need for it. Perhaps it was their parents who were dying, or another family member, or a close friend, and they needed to know what they could do for their loved ones in those last weeks, days, or hours. Th ...Show more
The People Smuggler: The True Story of One Man's Journey by Crespigny Robin De
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After his father, brother and he were incarcerated and tortured in Saddam's Abu Ghraib, Ali al Jenabi escaped from Iraq first to work with the anti-Saddam resistance in Iran and then to help his family out of the country all together. When Saddam's forces advance towards their refugee camp, Ali helps hi ...Show more
Clarkson: The Gloves Are Off by Gwen Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Did he really punch his producer? Was the 'Falklands-gate' license plate deliberate? And more importantly...does anybody really, honestly care? Jeremy Clarkson is a national treasure and with almost three quarters of a million signatures on the Bring Back Clarkson petition, the nation has spoken: they w ...Show more
This is Gail by Gail O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An inspiring story of one woman's journey through heartbreaking loss to renewal and new purpose. In 2008, inspirational surgeon and Lifehouse cancer centre founder Chris O'Brien published his bestselling memoir of his battle with brain cancer, NEVER SAY DIE. But he wasn't the only person in the O'Brien ...Show more