The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Once considered a respectable rare-map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley made millions and was highly esteemed for his knowledge; until he was arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. Though pieces of the story have been told before, Blanding is the first reporter to gain access to ...Show more
The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed a Child's Life by Rupert Isaacson
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year almost to the day since Rowan's improvement he started regressing: the accidents and tantrum ...Show more
Agent Storm : My Life Inside Al-Qaeda by Morten Storm
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent for the CIA, MI6 and MI5. Filled with hair-raising close calls ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it'*Winner of the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Business Book*The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dum ...Show more
Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir by Lotta Dann
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Lotta Dann was in trouble - her fun drinking habit had slowly morphed into an obsessive hunger for wine. One bottle a night was never quite enough. When she tried to cut down, she found it nearly impossible to have an alcohol-free day. Everyone around could see her drinking, but no one realised what a s ...Show more
Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter by Louise Mortimer
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
'Dearest Lumpy, I hope you are plump and well. Your mother bashed her car yesterday and chooses to believe it was not her fault...' Roger Mortimer's witty dressing-downs and affectionate advice were not only directed at his wayward son, Lupin. Though better behaved than her mischievous older brother, Lo ...Show more
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
$15.00 AUD
Category: General
When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home- five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination- building a grass ho ...Show more
Letter To My Daughter by Maya Angelou
$20.00 AUD
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.Here in ...Show more
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg: Being a Doctor with No Borders and Other Ways to Stay Single by Damien Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Damien Brown, a young Australian doctor, thinks he's ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he's sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the hospital, for which he's to be the only doctor, is filled with malnourished ...Show more
Family Secrets: Gay Sons - A Mother's Story by Jean M. Baker
$20.00 AUD
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As a clinical psychologist, Jean Baker had always considered herself open-minded and tolerant, but found she wasn't prepared for the revelation that her only two children were both gay. Family Secrets is an inspirational story of how she and her family learned to accept one another and overcome their in ...Show more