King Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed by Robert Jobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'To Charles, being monarch has nothing to do with power - he believes his role is to lead. It is up to others whether they choose to follow.' When Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, it sent shockwaves around the world. The longest reigning and oldest monarch, at ninety-six years o ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
Her Finest Hour by Mcdonald Rothwell Gabrielle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside Noor Inayat Khan and worked in the Resistance stronghold of the Franche-Comte department. Hunted at every turn by the Gestapo, Diana worked tirelessly for the ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
Undoctored - The story of a medic who ran out of patients by Adam Kay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. It has been read by millions, translated into 37 languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series. But that was only part of the story. Now, Adam Kay returns and will onc ...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
God and the Angel: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Tour De Force of Australia and New Zealand by Shiroma Perera-Nathan
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
God and the Angel is the first illustrated book on the 1948 Old Vic Tour of Australia and New Zealand, led by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Written from an Australian perspective and utilising never-before published photos from the National Library and author's collection, God and the Angel dia ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.'In a new edition, twenty Australian midwives reflect on their practice and its changes with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthurMidwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the mos ...Show more
The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond by Prudence Wheelwright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Nurse and midwife Prue Wheelwright has worked in the most remote parts of Australia and around the world. In isolated, far-flung locations and on dangerous frontlines, this passionate and dedicated nurse has put her heart, and often her safety, on the line, day after day, year after year. Prue shares al ...Show more
Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, The Snowball is the most fascinating financial success story of our time. Warren Buffett, the legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but finally has given Alice Schroeder unprecedented access to him and all those ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide.In this first-ever biography of Wong, acclaimed jou ...Show more