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A Bigger Picture (Malcolm Turnbull, HB) by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
The Ratline Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by th ...Show more
Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory h ...Show more
One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao's New China. Yet he knew if he devoted hi ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
David Campbell - A Life of the Poet by Jonathan Persse
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
David Campbell (1915-79) was one of Australia's finest lyric poets. Born into a landed family, he was a grazier for most of his life in the Canberra and Bungendore district of the Monaro. He fought with the RAAF in the Second World War, rising to the rank of wing commander, and he was twice awarded a Di ...Show more
Cops, Drugs, Lawyer X and Me by Paul Dale; Vikki Petraitis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars? There are a lot of reasons, and I hope this story will help clarify some of them, not only for you, the reader, but for me too, because a lot of the time I am left shaking my head, wondering ...Show more
Talk of Treasure: Words on Writing, Meditation and Life by Jane Carswell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audacious publication of Janet Frame's novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to write an award-winning memoir called Under the Huang Jiao Tree: Two journeys in China.The road between one book and the other was paved with bo ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Fourteen by Shannon Molloy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals and Reflections for Finding Wonder by Sasha Sagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
For Small Creatures Such as We hunts for the meaning behind our most common, beloved celebrations and envisions how we can grow these roots into new and fulfilling secular rituals. From the daughter of celebrated scientist, Carl Sagan, this is a luminous and moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughte ...Show more
Sad Mum Lady by Ashe Davenport
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
If David Sedaris and Sheila Heti had a baby... well, there'd be a lot to unpack there. But the ensuing stories would be brutal and hilarious and endlessly readable. And they'd look a bit like Sad Mum Lady.
