To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Three Famines by Tom Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mor, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in ...Show more
The World According to Joan by Joan Collins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Witty, clever and beautiful, Joan Collins possesses a singular star quality that has come to define what it means to be a living legend. As an actor, author and producer, she has built a career that places her in an unrivalled position in the ranks of international icons. In this, her latest memoir, she ...Show more
The Wrong Line by Andrew Ramsey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a cricket writer for over ten years, Andrew Ramsey's job was to be on tour with the world's greatest cricket team, in a decade when it had no peer. His book chronicles the privileges and pitfalls of a life spent trotting the globe, hanging out with sports stars, and being paid to watch cricket - a pa ...Show more
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night, he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab; to the wife and kids who waited for him at home; and the fast-talking, hard-partyi ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Other Mother: A Tale of Love, Nits and Blended Families by Kelly Chandler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For Kelly, meeting the right guy was pretty straightforward - becoming a 'spare mum' to his two sons was more daunting. It had taken long enough to get on with her own stepmum, and now Kelly suddenly found herself sharing responsibility for two mini-humans. Her party days gave way to early starts, jokes ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
The Long Run by Catriona Menzies-Pike
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
No one ever expected Catriona Menzies-Pike to run a marathon. She hated running, and was a hopeless athlete. When she was twenty her parents died suddenly - and for a decade she was stuck. She started running on a whim, and finally her grief started to move too. Until very recently, it was frowned upon ...Show more
The Little Book of Hope by ADE DJAJAMIHARDJA AND KATE STEPHENS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ade Djajamihardja had the perfect home, the perfect partner, and was at the height of his dream career in film and television when, in a matter of seconds, his life was utterly transformed. Following a massive haemorrhage stroke, Ade was left paralysed, unable to move, eat or even read. Top of the world ...Show more
The Legacy of Luther by R. C. Sproul; Stephen J. Nichols (Editor)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Martin Luther was one of the most influential men of his day. When he posted a series of theses on the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany, he was merely inviting debate. He set off something much larger. The Protestant Reformation that began with his posting of the Ninety-Five Theses reshaped Eur ...Show more
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more