White Beech: The Rainforest Years: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
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Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Acclaimed historian Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart. Here is a portrait of a 19-yea ...Show more
Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Molly Meldrum
39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1974 Ian 'Molly' Meldrum was working as a record producer and music journalist when he was offered the chance to host a new music show called 'Countdown'. It was a show that would run for the next thirteen years and become one of the most-loved and most-watched programs on Australian television. It a ...Show more
One Girl, One Dream: The Incredible Story of the Youngest Ever Solo Circumnavigation of the World by Laura Dekker
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the world upside down, or travel there yourself. In 2012, at the age of just 16, Laura Dekker became the youngest sailor ever to singl ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule
49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
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 his rise have intrigued the business world for decades but there is so much more ...Show more
The Shadows of Horses by Michael Keenan
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Mike Keenan shares the inside story of what life is like on the land for today's farmers - the isolation, the agony of drought and the uncertainty about the future.
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
This is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spent a lifetime making the impossible a reality. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space ...Show more
Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'"Why are we here?" The only time I ever asked meself that was on a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.' Left to his own devices, Karl Pilkington would be happy with his life just as it is. But now he's hit forty, everyone keeps asking him why he's so reluctant to marry his girlfriend and why he doesn't want ...Show more
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by Tim Cope
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Lone-adventurer Tim Cope travelled the entire length of the Eurasian steppe on horseback, from the ancient capital of Mongolia to the Danube River in Hungary. This formidable 6,000-mile journey took three years to complete. It is a journey that has not been completed successfully since the days of Gengh ...Show more
Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen by Jeff Burger
37.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted world-wide between 1966 and 2012. In this book -- which includes ...Show more
My Bon Scott by Irene Thornton
34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1971 Adelaide girl Irene Thornton meets Bon Scott, the singer for local band Fraternity. He is a larrikin showman with a smile that rules the world. Between Bon and Irene, there is a unique spark; they marry in 1972. For the next few years, with Irene by his side, Bon Scott continues a driven but dif ...Show more
David Walsh: A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
55.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
David Walsh - the creator of Mona in Hobart - is both a giant and an enigma in the Australian art world. A multi-millionaire who made his money gambling, David has turned a wild vision into a unique reality; he is in turns controversial, mysterious and idolised. A Bone of Fact is his utterly unconventio ...Show more