My Father, the Murderer - A Reckoning with the Past by Nina Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This was Nina Young's shocking realisation in her mid-twenties, when she found out from online court records that her estranged father, Allan Ladd, had strangled a woman to death decades before. In prison he'd met Denise, Nina's mother, who was his tutor. Although Denise didn't know the extent of Allan' ...Show more
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish
$45.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flare and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapologetic attitude, it' ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
No One Left Behind by Keith Payne
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the battlefields of Korea, Malaya and Vietnam to the struggle for veterans' welfare, Keith Payne has never shied away from a fight. More than 50 years ago, this bravery saw him receive the Commonwealth's highest military honour - the Victoria Cross. Keith grew up one of thirteen children in the sha ...Show more
I Live a Life Like Yours - A Memoir by Jan Grue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A profoundly beautiful memoir about living in a vulnerable body, fiercely and tenderly rewriting our understanding of relationships and desire.
Hard Knocks by Fiona Scott-Norman (editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a toughtime at school - either being bullied, not fitting in, or facing other adversities.The concept for the book is simple: many of the most popular Australians today were outsiders when they ...Show more
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A sweeping Hollywood biography of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh based on new research, including exclusive access to uncovered correspondence and interviews. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first la ...Show more
The Ghost Tattoo: Discovering the hidden truth of my father's Holocaust by Tony Bernard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving story of a son's quest to uncover his father's Holocaust secret. To the outside world, Henry Bernard was a hard-working and beloved family doctor on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Yet he was also a Holocaust survivor whose life was profoundly affected by the experiences of his past. H ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed three ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more