Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones
27.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
‘Sex and sexuality were our gifts, not our shame, and sharing them was not optional. No one discussed power imbalances, exploitation, or rape. To do so would have been seen as rebellious, or worse, heretical.’ Faith Jones was raised to be part of an elite army preparing for the End Times. Isolated on a ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: near fine
A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland. 'If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up the book to join us on a crazy camper van explorati ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
36.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
My Life, My Look - Carla Zampatti by Carla Zampatti
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The compelling story behind a fascinating Australian legend - fashion designer Carla Zampatti. Carla Zampatti is an enduring Australian fashion icon. In 2015, in a remarkable feat of longevity, she celebrated the 50th anniversary of her fashion house in Australia. And despite the fact that so many of us ...Show more
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, almost uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war.
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'One of the most remarkable books I have ever read' Susan Jeffers One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, thi ...Show more
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one o ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more