True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack - SIGNED by Brenda Niall
32.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twen ...Show more
After Romulus by Raimond Gaita
32.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published - the story of his father, who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illne ...Show more
Julian Assange: the Unauthorised Autobiography by Julian Assange
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Julian Assange: the Unauthorised Biography WikiLeaks has helped redefine our idea of investigative journalism and our understanding of how information should be disseminated. Julian Assange, the visionary creator of and driving force behind this new publishing phenomenon, has a unique perspective on ho ...Show more
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
22.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris--a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residenc ...Show more
The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Steig Larsson by Barry Forshaw
29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Wilkinson Publishing Ser. | Reading Level: very good
His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success. That he died in 2004 and his fame as an author is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with ...Show more
Price of Life by Nigel Brennan
29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In August 2008 Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia, along with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. What happens next could happen to anyone. You have a brother with a taste for adventure, who you haven't heard from in a while. You get a phone call on a Sunday morning from a jou ...Show more
That's What I'm Talking About by Shane Crawford; Glenn McFarlane
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
When Shane Crawford debuted for Hawthorn Football Club in 1993, little did he know what an amazing future awaited him. The kid from tiny Finley in New South Wales would become a champion of the game, the heart and soul of his club, and a successful media performer.Crawf's seventeen seasons with the Haw ...Show more
Welcome to the Outback by Sue Williams
29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Sue Williams has delivered us Women of the Outback and Outback Spirit, stories she gathers from the people of the bush. Ever curious, this time Sue puts herself in the firing line, seeking to find the essence of the outback experience - perfect for all us armchair travellers. She travelled the width and ...Show more
Standing My Ground- SIGNED by Matthew Hayden
49.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Matthew Hayden, who in early 2009 announced his retirement from first-class cricket, has been a stalwart of the Australian test and one-day teams for many years. In addition to being one of the world's best batsmen (he made the highest test score of all time 380 runs), he is known internationally as a m ...Show more
Two Wings of a Nightingale: Persian Soul, Islamic Heart by Jill Worrall
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Iran is probably the most misunderstood country in the world, and its people are among the most feared. Award-winning travel writer Jill Worrall, with her friend Reza Mirkhalaf, a leading tour manager from Tehran, describe an Iran the world has forgotten about. Few people in the west know anything abou ...Show more
Under the Skin by Marion Van Dyk
10.00 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Under the Skin is a moving account of growing up as a "coloured" in South Africa, and is marked by its vitality, warmth and insight. Marion's is a strong, assured voice, wonderfully free of self-absorption, and she balances her personal story with historical and political analysis of the apartheid year ...Show more
My Life in a Pea Soup (Finch Memoir Prize 2012) by LISA NOPS
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The prize is $10,000 and publication. This year's judges: Jacqueline Kent - writer, editor and scriptwriter. Her biographies are The Making of Julia Gillard, An Exacting Heart: The story of Hephzibah Menuhin and A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life Susan Duncan - writer and editor. Her books ...Show more