Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series by Carl Reinecke
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at th ...Show more
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane; Neil Martinez-Belkin
$28.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Gucci Mane began writing his remarkable autobiography in a maximum-security prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive-a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past. Now the legend takes us to his roots in Alabama, the streets of East Atlanta, ...Show more
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics: The official, fully illustrated celebration of the Man in Black by Mark Stielper, Johnny Carter Cash, Johnny Cash
$89.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
This book marks the first time Johnny Cash's 60 years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than 600 songs and perhaps best known for blending country, rock, blues, and gospel in his music, usher ...Show more
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (PB) by Walter Isaacson
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it ...Show more
Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country by Ryan Cropp
$37.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity ...Show more
Counterfeit Countess (Janina Mehlberg) The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust by Elizabeth B White, Joanna Sliwa
$36.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A fascinating biography of the incredible Janina (Pepi Spinner) Mehlberg, a German-Jewish mathematician who saved the lives of many inmates of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp at Lublin in Poland during the Second World War - which she did by posing as a bogus Polish aristocrat named Co ...Show more
My Life in Full - Work, Family and Our Future by Indra Nooyi
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo 'A must-read for working women and the men who work with us, love us and support us' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'Surprising and compelling' Financial Times The first woman of colour and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company - and ...Show more
The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga by Imre Salusinszky
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel. It killed three people.A decade later, Pederick confessed to this act of terrorism. But when one of his alleged accomplices was later acquitted, ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Outspoken - 50 Speeches by Incredible Women by Deborah Coughlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ... A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help us see the funny side to life. From Jesus to Wins ...Show more
Bitcoin Billionaires - A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires - the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accident ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries, 1978-1986 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Leigh Sales: "An incredible insight into the thinking and writing processes of one of the greatest writers in Australian history." Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked awa ...Show more