Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic by Joyce Marie Mushaben
$40.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Since 2005, Angela Merkel has transformed not only the way Germans see themselves but also the way that politicians worldwide, male and female, perceive women in power. The East German daughter of a Protestant pastor, this physicist-turned-politician has deployed her life experiences to cultivate a uniq ...Show more
Dior: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Liz Flavell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Christian Dior (1905-1957) was a French fashion designer, the founder of the world famous fashion house that carries his name. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he once owned a small art gallery selling work by artists including Pablo Picasso; that he employed a young Yves Sai ...Show more
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra by Anne Aly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrespressible woman 'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' - The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and th ...Show more
Do Oysters Get Bored? : A Curious Life by Rozanna Lilley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A baby cries; a mother exits, leaving her family behind; a child finally begins to talk; a father stops breathing. Rozanna Lilley is a social anthropologist, autism researcher, and Oscar's mum. Oscar is on the autism spectrum, which means he has a particular way of being in the world and understanding t ...Show more
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of T ...Show more
An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton; Lara Love Hardin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity."--Archbishop Desmo ...Show more
The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary the story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world's medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest and most isolated people.
The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The international bestseller that brought Trump's long history of racism, mafia ties, and shady business dealings into the limelight. Now with a new introduction and epilogue. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the ...Show more