Births Deaths Marriages by Georgia Blain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A brutally honest account of love, marriage, families and death.It wasn't until years later that I realised the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fictiona There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering beneath the surface, gl ...Show more
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and f ...Show more
Endurance by Scott Kelly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently. The veteran of four space flights and the American recor ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
$29.99 AUD
$38.00 (21% off)
Category: Biography
"Compelling. Brilliant. Revealing. Funny. Inspirational. Extraordinary. Sir Richard Branson s amazing memoir is now updated to include the effect on the Virgin Group of 11 September, his views on the war in Iraq, the rise of Virgin Blue and the flotation of Virgin Mobile. Discover how Virgin is moving i ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air: The ultimate moving life-and-death story by Paul Kalanithi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more
Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son by Mark Colvin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Light and Shadowis the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent. Mark covered local and global events for the ABC for more than four decades, reporting on ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.95 AUD
$36.99 (10% off)
Category: Biography
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
Life Force by Barry du Bois; Miguel Maestre (As told to); Amanda Keller (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Barry du Bois shares an incredible story that is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measures. Faced with the recurrence of his incurable cancer Channel 10's The Living Room's building and design expert Barry Du Bois leaves nothing to chance as he embraces a do-or-die treatment to extend his time ...Show more
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This debut from a former Queensland judge's associate breaks the silence around sexual assault and all the ways Australia's court system tries to silence victims. If you're wondering why Australia's #metoo movement hasn't g ...Show more
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
$24.99 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: Biography
The story of the woman who rose to be Director-General of Britain's Security Service, MI5, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1996. Stella Rimington worked to Director level in all main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. During her ...Show more
Ascent A life spent climbing on the edge by Sir Chris Bonington
$45.00 AUD
$52.99 (15% off)
Category: Biography
'These well chronicled chapters of Chris's life read like the pages of an epic saga with all the battle and victory, triumph and tragedy, love and loss one would expect of a mythical hero.' - Leo Houlding 'Bonington was a fabulous and very creative climber. He brought Britain back to being a leading nat ...Show more