Invention: A Life by James Dyson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dyson has become a byword for high performing products, technology, design and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of th ...Show more
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of our most iconic writers, a luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure, loss, and the banks of the Nile. Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English col ...Show more
Invisible Child - Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty and racism in an unequal America. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, ...Show more
Invisible Walls - A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A trailblazer for women in journalism, Hella Pick arrived in Britain in 1939 as a child refugee from Austria. Over nearly four decades she covered the volatile global scene, first in West Africa, followed by America and long periods in Europe. In her thirty-five years with the Guardian she reported on t ...Show more
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten’s mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After eventually discovering the grandparents she loved dearly ...Show more
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?: (And other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
âe~Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?âe(tm) Glamour Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes about everything from being a timid young chubster ...Show more
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub Catch a Rising Star as a twenty-one-year-old student in autumn of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved ever ...Show more
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Remarkable Lives by John McIlwain
$12.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Remarkable Lives Ser.
An illustrated biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the foremost engineer in an age of great engineers, when the Industrial Revolution was at its height and Britain, its birthplace, was the vibrant hub of a world empire. It presents the story of this perfectionist, the setbacks and challenges ...Show more
Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight by Silva Mcleod
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the life story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. She's still one of only a handful. Told by Silva with frankness and wit, it's quite a story. Silva takes us on a journey of cultural change from her beginnings as a poor island girl to her marriage to an Australia ...Show more
Island Home by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more
It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This by Lisa Wilkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The #1 bestselling Australian autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson. Lisa Wilkinson has lived much of her life in the public eye. One of Australia's most respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant pre ...Show more