The Child Bride by Cathy Glass
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what? Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cath ...Show more
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eve ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving t ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there’s a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of A ...Show more
Finding Nevo by Nevo Zisin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Meet Nevo: girl, boy, he, she, him, her, they, them, daughter, son, teacher, student, friend, gay, bi, lesbian, trans, homo, Jew, dyke, masculine, feminine, androgynous, queer. Nevo was not born in the wrong body. Nevo just wants everyone to catch up with all that Nevo is. Personal, political and passio ...Show more
From Third World to First : the Singapore Story : 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourth ...Show more
Full Life by President Jimmy Carter (Miller Center of Public Affairs)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In his major "New York Times" bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian ("Booklist"). At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with ...Show more
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One ...Show more
The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom by Nujeen Mustafa
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Previously published as 'Nujeen' 'She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you' Malala Yousafzai An inspiring tale of a young disabled girl and her escape from the hell of war. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. This did not stop her braving inconceivable odds to t ...Show more
The Helen One Hundred: 100 Dates in Less Than a Year by Helen Razer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A hundred dates in less than a year. Will they heal her broken heart or make it worse? Brilliant, hilarious and excruciating confessions from bestselling writer and journalist Helen Razer.
In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey by Samuel Fromartz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing.In 2009, journalist and home baker Samuel Fromartz was offered the assignment of a lifetime: to travel to France to work in a boulangerie. So began his four-year quest across the United States and Europe to ...Show more
John Le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John le Carre is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and con-m ...Show more