The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard by Daniel Lane
$36.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kokoda Trail. Ironically, Kokoda rescued Reg decades later when he decided to take his own life. After losing Betty, his wife of 66 years, the grief-stricken great-grandfather lost the will to live. But he fo ...Show more
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: good
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The Girl Explorers - The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong. In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that women are not adapted to exploration, and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn't know a thing abo ...Show more
Advancing Human Rights by Michael Mintrom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Ficton | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights should be everyone’s business, not just that of a select group of public interest lawyers, conspiracy theorists or those who prefer tinfoil hats.Human rights ...Show more
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader by Philip Short
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his nei ...Show more
The Unwinding and Other Dreamings by Jackie Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Inspiration
A highly illustrated pillow book to prompt dreaming and creativity by Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist Jackie MorrisLonglisted for the 2021 Kate Greenaway Medal"A quiet masterpiece . . . a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we ...Show more
Paris or Die: A Memoir by Jayne Tuttle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's memoir lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a headlong plunge into not just life in Paris, but life itself. Aspiring actor Jayne lives in Melbourne, where she dreams of a creative life ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Voice of Russia Radio and heard that the Kre ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One thing’s for sure: it’s not easy. But then, there’s always been something special about Eddie Betts. Betts grew up in Port Lincoln and K ...Show more
What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures by Amos Oz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in En ...Show more
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mr Jack has been nimble and he's been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he's found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner. He's unearthed the answers to some very curious questions...Who were Mary Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could "Hey Diddle Diddle" ...Show more