Revolution - Ange Postecoglou: the Man, the Methods and the Mastery by John Greechan
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Unknown in Scotland upon his arrival and unheralded in the English game, Ange Postecoglou revels in his status as an outside agitator. After transforming a Celtic team in turmoil into serial winners, sweeping up five trophies over the course of two spectacular seasons, his appointment by Tottenham Hotsp ...Show more
From The Heart: The inspirational memoir of how a captain became a leader by Trent Cotchin
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
When Trent Cotchin was handed the reins of Richmond Football Club's team in 2013, he was a 22-year-old star, skilful and fearlessly hard at the ball. Coming off a Brownlow Medal-winning season, he embraced the captaincy and continued his quest to get the most out of himself for the benefit of the club. ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
The Happiest Boy on Earth (HB) by Eddie Jaku
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie lived with his family and adorable dachshund, Lulu, in the beautiful city of Leipzig in Germany. But one day, into the sunshine of his childhood crept a dark, heavy cloud. Not a rain cloud. Much worse than that. Adolf Hitler came to ...Show more
Where the Shadows Have Fallen: The unhappy descent of Henry Kendall by Adrian Mitchell
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Biography
Henry Kendall was once regarded as Australia’s finest poet, compared favourably with Wordsworth. His poetry was romantic, sentimental in its celebration of the Australian bush he loved. But he was more Henry Lawson than John Keats: a self-pitying wife deserter, cadger and drunkard. And it ran in the fam ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more
Old Rage by Sheila Hancock
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
'Her gift for directly communicating the open-heartedness and spirit of adventure with which she confronts her life - is the stuff of bestsellers' Joan Bakewell, Guardian Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhood, taking on acting roles that wo ...Show more
It’s a Shame About Ray: A Memoir by Jonathan Seidler
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. What tracks combine to make a family album? What do we carry from one generation to a next? What is the difference between leaning on and letting go? Blackly funny and frequently devastating, this m ...Show more
Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA's Seamstresses by Elise Matich
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Did you know that the white material on the outside of space shuttles was not metal or glass but actually fabric? Specialized quilts, two inches thick, covered the space shuttles and protected the astronauts from deadly heat and radiation. Jean Wright was one of the eighteen "Sew Sisters" who crafted th ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
Raised by Wolves: A memoir with bite by Jess Ho
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Biography
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over food (and then only until the bill arrived), and it was clear that a normal life was never on the menu. She emerged from her childhood with two important traits: ...Show more