Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee
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Category: Biography
One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him. One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversa ...Show more
A Lady's Pen: The botanical letters of Georgiana Molloy by Bernice Barry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In December 1836, Georgiana Molloy received an unexpected letter from a stranger in London. Captain James Mangles asked her to collect specimens and seeds of the native plants of Taalinup, where she was living with her family, on Wadandi Pibelmen country. During the last six years of her life, they exch ...Show more
The Way of the Hermit - My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The Way of the Hermit, seventy-four-year-old Ken Smith recounts a life he has chosen to spend alone with the wilderness.Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone, with ...Show more
537 Days of Winter: An Australian Antarctic Expedition Leader Stranded During the Pandemic by David Knoff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back home changed forever ? As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard mission when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, international travel came t ...Show more
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigo ...Show more
Against All Odds: The inside account of the Thai cave rescue and the courageous Australians at the heart of it by Richard Harris, Craig Challen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘I just want to warn you. You’re going to dive to the end of the cave. You’re going to see these kids. They’re all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you’re going to swim away, and they’re probably all going to die.’ In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding by KEN PETER AND SPILLMAN DOWDING
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowdi ...Show more
All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
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Category: Biography
The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket ...Show more
The School That Hope Built: The inspirational Australian woman using education to fight poverty in Africa by Madeleine Kelly, Gemma Sisia
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An extraordinary account of Gemma Sisia's twenty years as the founder of St Jude's, a school that is changing the lives of some of the poorest children in Tanzania. From a country town in Australia to a small village in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia has built a truly remarkable legacy. In 2002, Gemma founded Th ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more