Cross Everything: A personal journey into the evolution of cancer by Henry Scowcroft
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A moving, compelling and vital book, that sheds much needed light on the very latest understanding of cancer.'Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies'Sensitive and informed. Essential reading for anyone supporting a loved one through cancer.'Deborah James, writer and broadcasterWhen ...Show more
How Stella Learned to Talk by Christina Hunger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The groundbreaking story of the world's first talking dog, the indispensable dog book for the new decade. An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who taught her dog, Stella, to communicate usi ...Show more
The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more
What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood, Civil Service and the Making of Modern Britain by Heywood, Suzanne
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
''From the first day that I started work at the Healthand Safety Executive I was asking restless questionslike ''what is the point of doing that?'' and ''does itactually have an effect on anything?'' That is myeconomist training, which I combine with an assumptionthat things can be improved - and it is ...Show more
Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours by Sarah Sentilles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Sentilles, the ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed author of Draw Your Weapons, returns in 2021 with Stranger Care, a powerful and extraordinary memoir about her experiences adopting a child in America. Sarah and her husband make the decision to adopt, and after several years and an involved proc ...Show more
Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains how closely we are all connecte ...Show more
28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love by Brandon Jack
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man. 'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing' Malcolm Knox'Brandon Jack is a force for good' Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the Shameless podcastContinually t ...Show more
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is Britain's favourite (and naughtiest) treasu ...Show more
Operation Jungle (PB) by John Shobbrook
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through ...Show more
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life by Dr Richard Shepherd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thou ...Show more
Many Maps: Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart ...Show more
Buy Now, Pay Later: The extraordinary story of Afterpay by Jonathan Shapiro, James Eyers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The fascinating behind the scenes story of the brash Aussie technology start up that changed the way a whole generation around the world does their shopping. Millennials love it. Amateur investors made millions out of it, and its founders became billionaires. But professional investors steered clear, re ...Show more