Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life by Anne Glenconner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bracing honesty, rare insight, and hilarious revelations from the author of the smash-hit New York Times bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stori ...Show more
When All is Said & Done by Neale Daniher
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Neale Daniher sat down to pen a letter to the grandchildren he'll never get to know. And then he kept on writing ... In 2013, the AFL legend was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - a cruel and incurable condition. He had a choice. He could spend his remaining time focused on himself, or he could seiz ...Show more
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!' I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer it. Who could be ca ...Show more
When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
$31.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from t ...Show more
When Minutes Matter by Jennifer Jamison (Editor); Robert Mitchell (Editor); Leanne Tolra (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From a late-night crocodile attack in Australia's remote outback, or a volcanic eruption off the coast of Aotearoa New Zealand, to a Palestinian city under aerial bombardment or a cardiac arrest in a remote Pacific atoll, emergency clinicians are every society's safety net.When Minutes Matter is a colle ...Show more
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This is the way bullies work. When Time Stopped is more than just history. It's a warning.' Michael PalinIn this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's pas ...Show more
When the Dust Settles - Stories of love, loss and hope from an expert in disaster by Lucy Easthope
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'An essential, uplifting read, brimming with humanity, humility and humour' PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACKLucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call.Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaste ...Show more
When the Ship Hits the Fan by Rob Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Captain Rob Anderson spills the beans on a lifetime of incidents, accidents and shenanigans of every type, in every ocean of the world, during an era when the seas were largely unregulated and more like the Wild West than anything witnessed on land. Since he first went to sea at 15 Captain Rob has b ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also, where we fail to swim, water threatening to flood our ...Show more
White by Bret Easton Ellis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985, earning him devoted fans and, perhaps, even fiercer enemies. An enigmatic figure who has always gone against the grain and refu ...Show more
White Butterflies (Updated edition) by Colin Mcphedran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder brothe ...Show more