The Fights of My Life by Greg Combet; Mark Davis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Greg Combet has been at the centre of some of the biggest battles of our time—the waterfront dispute, the collapse of an airline, compensation for asbestos victims, the campaign against unfair workplace laws and then climate change. From an isolated childhood on the Minchinbury estate west of Sydney, Co ...Show more
Hockey: Not Your Average Joe by Madonna King
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political
Will this man be Australia's next Prime Minister? The son of an immigrant and a Bondi beauty queen, Joe Hockey is one of Australia's most popular politicians with one of the nation's toughest jobs. So, how did he get there? And can he deliver? While thousands of viewers have watched Hockey's approachabl ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
The Fly Trap : A Book About Summer, Islands and Finding Happiness in the Little Things by Fredrik Sjoberg
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
Fredrik Sjoberg's mesmerising Swedish bestseller on travel, the joy of collecting and discovering the hidden wonders of life. The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else. Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something abo ...Show more
There Goes Gravity - A Life in Rock and Roll by Lisa Robinson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Lisa Robinson has interviewed everyone from John Lennon to Bono to Patti Smith, Eminem to Lady Gaga to Jay-Z and Kanye West. She's talked nail polish with a 12-year-old Michael Jackson, hosted The Clash at Studio 54, and introduced Lou Reed to David Bowie over filet mignon in a Manhattan restaurant. She ...Show more
I, Migrant: A Comedian's Journey from Karachi to the Outback by Sami Shah
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An intelligent, hilarious and moving memoir - from Karachi to Western Australia. Read I, Migrant and laugh til you cry. Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia.
Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save it by Harry Leslie Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it...' In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet sale ...Show more
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Biggest Hit in Mob History by Charles Brandt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been from the outside looking in; Jay Barbree is the only person whom Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the Armstrong family, Jay Barbree has written th ...Show more
Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch by Yehezkel Dror (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this iconoclastic book, Dror argues that humanity cascades through a metamorphosis, driven mainly by science and technology. Radical human enhancement, synthesis of viruses, quasi-intelligent robots and molecular engineering illustrate the emerging quantum leap, as do value changes ranging between ma ...Show more
Two Turtle Doves: A Memoir of Making Things by Alex Monroe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Two Turtle Doves is the story of a life spent making things. Growing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled gardens, Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made n ...Show more
Mr. China by Tim Clissold
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet. Part memoir, part parable, Mr. China is one man's coming-of-ag ...Show more