I Wrote This for You and Only You by Iain S. Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The follow-up to the international #1 bestselling collection of prose and photography, I Wrote This For You And Only is the third book in the I Wrote This For You series and gathers together the very best entries in the project from 2011 to 2015. Started in 2007, I Wrote This For You is an international ...Show more
I Miss You When I Blink - Dispatches from a relatively ordinary life by Mary Laura Philpott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Spot-on observations about domestic, professional, and creative life, taking on the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood with humour and thoughtful contemplation, from an author who is connected to highly influential writers like Elizabeth Gilbert and Ann Patchett.
Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World by Steinunn Siguroardottir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Icelandic Sheep Farmer fighting an energy company | Reading Level: very good
I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons...drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay ba ...Show more
The Jones Family Food Roster: How Community, Family and Faith Helped One Woman Thrive in the Face of Cancer by Alison Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
When Alison, a mother of five school aged children, is diagnosed with a rare and incurable cancer she is initially overwhelmed. As a busy working mother she agonises about her future and the effect her treatment regime will have on her family. Then, one of Alison's friends sets up a roster and a home-c ...Show more
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines; Joanna Gaines
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly Are you ready to see your fixer upper? These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves with anticip ...Show more
Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread by Susanna de Vries
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Joice Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She had the inspired courage that saved many hundreds of Jews and Poles in World War II, the compassion that made her a self-trained doctor to tens of thousands of refugees, the incredible grit that took her close to death in several theatres of war, and the d ...Show more
Tim Cook: The Genius Leading Apple into a New era of Success by Leander Kahney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'With Steve Jobs's passing, Apple can survive, but it won't prevail.' - Forbes, October 2011 In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassumin ...Show more
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal. This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope of t ...Show more
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortes ...Show more
Homing by Jon Day
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at home. Returning to his childhood obsession wi ...Show more
Before I Forget by Geoffrey Blainey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
To Obama- A People's History by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: A People's History
One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday TimesEvery day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before go ...Show more