Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning.John Macarthur too ...Show more
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' ...Show more
This Will Only Hurt a Little
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Funny, refreshingly candid memoir about Hollywood, motherhood and BFFhood' Cosmopolitan 'Busy is a legit writer with a voice as clear as a bell' Tina Fey 'Judy Blume meets Karl Ove Knausgaard meets one brave woman from Arizona' Miranda JulyA memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles o ...Show more
Overlander by Rupert Guinness
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A powerful memoir about an epic bike race across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. This would be no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
The Gap: A paramedic's summer on the edge by Benjamin Gilmour
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In this riveting memoir, Gilmour recounts the call-outs that summer- some dangerous, some gruesome, some downright ridiculous. And we meet fellow paramedic John who, they say, can get a laugh out of everyone except the dead. As the city heats up that summer, however, even John begins to lose his sense o ...Show more
A Question of Colour: my journey to belonging by Patricia Lees
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Depart ...Show more
Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse by Gregory Smith (local)
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus. ...Show more
Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin
$69.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Fifty years after their first practice in a Soho basement, Led Zeppelin continues to fascinate new generations of listeners. While their back-stage debauchery has been the focus of other books, All the Songs is about the music, detailing the Page's studio magic and inspiration that made all nine albums ...Show more
Of Gold and Dust by Wills, Samantha
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
All this time I thought I had a creative career and a personal life, but the truth is there is no such thing, there is only a creative life. Samantha Wills started her self-titled jewellery company at just 21-years-old on the dining room table of her share house in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. From Tu ...Show more
Tragedy - The Sad Ballad of the Gibb Brothers by Jeff Apter
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The rise and fall of the brothers Gibb is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian music history.Despite several rebirths in a career that spanned many decades, it seemed that tragedy followed the Gibbs like a curse. For every incredible career high there was a hefty personal downside: divorce, drunkenne ...Show more
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more