Lead from the Outside - How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of OUR TIME IS NOW Abrams's own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will...touch you in a way few books by politicians can. --The New York TimesPRAISE FOR STACEY ABRAMSIn a time when too many folks are focused simply on how ...Show more
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off by Sandi Toksvig
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BB ...Show more
Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony (Book 1) by PORTER HAL
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: UQP Nonfiction Ser.
Recreating the rhythms of small-town life between the wars, it covers the author's first two decades. From the sensuality of his early boyhood experiences, Porter travels ever-observantly through his Bairnsdale school years to his first job as a cadet reporter. The shock of his mother's death, however, ...Show more
Donald J. Trump - A President Like No Other by Conrad Black
$34.00 AUD
Category: Political
Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and Flight of the Eagle: America's Rise from Colonial Upstart to the World's Superpower, turns his attention to his friend President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and ...Show more
China Blonde by Nicole D Webb
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A HILARIOUS EXPOSITION OF CULTURE SHOCK' Chris Bath From a TV newsreader in Sydney to a hotelier's wife in the heart of China - this is a true story of reinvention, love and ?nding your home. When Nicole Webb's husband James is offered a job in the ancient city of Xi'an, in north-west China, they jump a ...Show more
The Master of Us All - Balenciaga by Mary Blume
$25.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
When Cristobal Balenciaga died in 1972, the news hit the front page of The New York Times. One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Balenciaga was, as Elsa Schiaparelli said, "the only designer who dares do what he likes." He was, said Christian Dior, "the master o ...Show more
Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde.Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Doug ...Show more
The Killer Inside Me by JIm Thompson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but hi ...Show more
The Iris Trilogy - Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
$70.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The complete, heart-warming trilogy of John Bayley's touching memoirs chronicling his marriage to the great British novelist now available in a single volume. Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford ...Show more
Napier Collyns - Memoir of a Networking Man by Richard Daglish
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Napier Collyns was at the heart of the small group of planners and forecasters at Shell (which included Pierre Wack, Herman Kahn, and Peter Schwartz) who invented and pioneered scenario planning. Later he was a founding member of International Futures Forum, and he was part of the small group who founde ...Show more
God, the Devil and Me by Alf Taylor
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced ...Show more
Diana - Her True Story in Her Own Words (US PB) by Andrew Morton
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death. When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Greeted init ...Show more