Guinea Pig in White Wine Sauce by Alan Rochford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Alan Rochford was living the dream when he started Stone Cottage, an idyllic French restaurant nestled in the Adelaide Hills. He had everything going for him apart from experience, money, and the first idea about what he was doing. After two years and one divorce, he began to see the funny side, fed on ...Show more
Mark Beretta's Greatest Moments in Australian Sport: The most incredible moments in Australian sport since 2000 by Mark Beretta
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Mark Beretta is a journalist, TV host, author and Australia's most watched sports presenter. But first, foremost and most fervently he is a sports fan. Since taking position behind the Sunrise sports desk in 2000, Mark has had the privilege of being up close to history in the making including many spec ...Show more
No Spin: The autobiography of Shane Warne by Shane Warne, Mark Nicholas
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The Commemorative edition of the bestselling NO SPIN, a look at the extraordinary cricketing career and life of Shane Warne in his own words. On 4 March 2022, the passing of Shane Warne shocked all of Australia and the cricketing world. His death brought a nation to a standstill as we reflected on his ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Detours by Tim Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more
Chappell's Last Stand by Michael Sexton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Swashbuckling and fearless, Ian Chappell epitomised Australian cricket in the 1970s. When he gave up the Test captaincy, he set out to salvage south Australian pride. Chappell's Last Stand zooms in on what was supposed to be the mercurial cricketer's last year as a player, when he went to war with admin ...Show more
The Last Snake Man by Jimmy Thomson (As told to); John Cann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. B ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
Patty Mills Beyond Basketball by Boti Nagy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Patty Mills is the first book exploring the Indigenous Australian athlete and trail blazer -- the first Indigenous Australian to win an NBA Championship in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs. He continues to break records and inspire with his achievements, all of which are covered in this tribute to the ex ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
The Angels by Bob Yates
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The Angels roared out of the 1970s with multi-platinum albums, hits and record-breaking tours. The band was formed by the trio of Rick and John Brewster and Doc Neeson. Songs from their classic albums are as pertinent today as they were when they were released, thanks to John and Rick, the genius songwr ...Show more
"Gelignite" Jack Murray - an Aussie larrikin legend by Phil MURRAY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The story of a legendary larrikin as told by his son Phil Murray. Murray was best known as the rally driver who in 1954 won the REDeX 'Around Australia' Reliability Trial without the loss of a single point; but Jack's sporting interests and achievements were eclectic and far-ranging.