Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horribl ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Sons of Beaches by Bill McDonough
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Family, fame and tragedy, the story of Australian Crawl's Bill and Guy McDonough. Founded in 1978, Australian Crawl has sold over 2 million records and been awarded some of Australia's highest music accolades, including an induction to the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1996. This is the true story of two brother ...Show more
Rambling Man - My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He slings his guitar or banjo over his shoulder and strides out along the road to the next town. There he plays a few songs at a local gig and meets a beautiful woma ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain by Raynor Winn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more
Pastures of Healing: From the Loss of a Child by Denis Glennon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A violent and senseless crime committed against an innocent citizen, and a father's desire 25 years later to speak directly to others who have lost a child or experienced similar grief to help in the necessary recovery back into their lives.Ciara Glennon vanished into the night in Perth, Western Austral ...Show more