The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2009, he was the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since Keith Payne's medal in 1969. Mark showed extraordinary courage when he rescued an Afghan interpreter under heavy fire during a bloody ambush in Afghanistan. Something ab ...Show more
Patrick Leigh Fermor - An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated ...Show more
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The recent Narnia films have inspired a resurgence of interest in C. S. Lewis, the Oxford academic, popular theologian and, most famously, creator of the magical world of Narnia - and this authoritative new biography, published to mark the 50th anniversary of Lewis's death, sets out to introduce him to ...Show more
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public role ...Show more
Casey Stoner: Pushing the Limits by Casey Stoner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Showing anything is possible when determination meets talent, two-time World MotoGP champion Casey Stoner shares his inspirational journey from Queensland toddler, with an extraordinary ability on a motorbike, to his decision to retire at twenty-seven with nothing left to prove. For the first time, he t ...Show more
On the Road: Growing Up in Eight Journeys by Richard Hammond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Autobiography of TV presenter Richard Hammond, told through 8 of the most significant road journeys he has taken. On the Road: Growing up in Eight Journeys is a new way of autobiography, in which 'Top Gear' presenter Richard Hammond tells his life story through a series of significant driving episodes. ...Show more
Long Walk to Freedom (FTI) by Nelson Mandela
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Nelson Mandela became the democratically elected, first black president ...Show more
What I Learned Along the Way by Dawn Fraser
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Our Dawn is a champion. She is one of only three swimmers ever to have won gold in the same event in three consecutive Olympics, and in 1999, she was named the World's Greatest Living Female Water Sports Champion. She's been a rule-breaker, a record-breaker, and Australian of the Year - and she's learne ...Show more
Mayor of MacDougal Street - A Memoir by Dave Van Ronk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the '60s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerle ...Show more
Queen Bee of Tuscany: the Redoubtable Janet Ross by Ben Downing
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An engrossing examination of a fascinating woman and her irresistible world Ben Downing's "Queen Bee of Tuscany" brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and wen ...Show more
Karen Green - Bough Down
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With fearlessness and grace, "Bough Down" reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer Karen Green conjures the inscrutable space of love and loss, clarity and contradiction, sense and madness. She summons memory and the mac ...Show more
The Bucket: Memories of an Inattentive Childhood by Allan Ahlberg
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg is the enthralling childhood story of one of Britain's best-loved children's authors. 'My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner's hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful business then in many people's eye ...Show more