Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
Living the Chateau Dream by Angel Strawbridge; Dick Strawbridge
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict château with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley.Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Château told the entertaining and heartwarming beginn ...Show more
Line in the Sand by Dean Yates
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Lawson (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the ho ...Show more
King Charles III: Our King: The Man and the Monarch by Robert Jobson
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive biography of King Charles III The definitive biography of King Charles with exclusive material and insight from a source close to the King himself.
Kindness: What Surviving on the Kindness of Strangers Taught Me About Perspective, Connection and Happiness by Kath Koschel
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A moving story of hope, resilience and the life-changing power of kindness, from the founder of the global not-for-profit, Kindness Factory. Kath Koschel has faced almost unimaginable hurdles. In her mid-twenties, she broke her back and was told she may never walk again. Shortly afterwards, she lost he ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
In Search of Perfumes - A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents by Dominique Roques
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A journey across the world, revealing the beauty and mysteries of the perfume trade. The book also tackles the earth's changing climate conditions, with its impact on the sources of the world's scents. In Search of Perfumes is a fragrant journey across the world, revealing the beauty and mysteries of th ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
Endgame by Omid Scobie
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The new book from bestselling author Omid Scobie shedding light on the Royal Family, with unique insight and exclusive access. On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family, and ...Show more