10 FOR 66 AND ALL THAT by MAILEY, ARTHUR
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Arthur Mailey's classic autobiography, first published in 1958, is a wry and engaging account by a talented cricketer from a very different era - full of zest, varied, quick, shifting the point of attack, sometimes extravagant, frequently brilliant and always thoughtful. 10 for 66 and All That is a remi ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
A Woman's Education by Jill Ker Conway
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Home-educated and outback-raised, Jill Kerr Conway was told she could never achieve academically. She went on to get a PhD from Harvard, write best-sellers and work as president of America
Adele The Biography by Chas Newkey-Burden
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This biography explores Adele's teenage years when she wrote her own music and attended the BRIT school, alongside the likes of Leona Lewis. It tells how, after posting demos on the MySpace website, she earned a record deal and quickly captured our hearts.
American Sniper [Film Tie-in Edition]: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military h ...Show more
Anna - The Biography by Amy Odell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media. As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob hair ...Show more
Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies by Bernard Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A witty, irreverent and intelligent satire of Australian politics. A soon-to-be-elected Australian prime minister invokes the spirit of Sir Robert Menzies and astonishingly, the Great Man rises from the grave. But in Canberra, amongst the nation's leaders, the revived Menzies is rarely listened to and h ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
Australian Dictionary of Biography V13 by John Ritchie
$82.50 AUD
Category: Biography
Since 1962 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been prepared by its staff in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. It provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent men and women of this country who contributed their vision and ener ...Show more