Catch a Falling Star (Jeanne Little Biography) by Katie M. Little
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1974 Jeanne Little burst into the living rooms of millions of households across Australia with her ?rst appearance on The Mike Walsh Show - audiences didn't know what hit them! With a ?gure like Twiggy, false eyelashes and a raucous voice that screamed 'Hello Daaaaaaahling!', Jeanne was an instant se ...Show more
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: Biography
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional hom ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the ques ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
9.99 AUD
19.98 (50% off)
Category: Biography
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness wit ...Show more
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isa ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Kate Langbroek's deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full; and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
9.99 AUD
19.99 (50% off)
Category: Biography
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more