Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable career in this "engrossing" memoir that "shines with positive energy" (Library Journal, starred review).One of our best-loved actors, Michael Caine has starred in over 100 films in his six-decade career, spanning classic movies ...Show more
Back on Track: How one man and his dogs are changing the lives of rural kids by Bernie Shakeshaft, James Knight
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
As a kid, Bernie Shakeshaft's mischievous and reckless behaviour led him to became known as the wild one of his devout Catholic family. It isn't surprising that his path led him to the Northern Territory, a place where people often go to either lose themselves or find themselves. Bernie, a searcher for ...Show more
Chasing the Moon: An Epic Rivalry, A Monumental Challenge, The Race to be First by Robert Stone; Alan Andres (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: near fine
This companion to the six-hour "American Experience" documentary airing on PBS goes beyond the series to reveal the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete the 1961 vision of President John F. Kennedy, with the first lunar landing in 1969.
Ladies Who Punch - Barbara, Rosie, Whoopi and "The View," the Show That Revolutionized Daytime TV by Ramin Setoodeh
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she'd revolutionized ...Show more
The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust by Jack Fairweather
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter's infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his daring escape to warn the Allies about the Nazis' true plans for a "Final Solution." To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border ...Show more
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the a ...Show more
Unnatural Causes by Dr Richard Shepherd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak ... Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His wo ...Show more
Unmasked by Turia Pitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Whether via the numerous media reports, 60 Minutesspecials, Women's Weeklycover stories or her first book, Everything To Live For,we know about the why, how and what of that fateful day in September 2011. We know how she died four times on the operating table and her tortuous road to recovery. We've had ...Show more
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything by Elizabeth Gilbert
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three thin ...Show more
Malcolm Young: The Man Who Made AC/DC by Jeff Apter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The first in-depth biography of Malcolm Young, from the author of High Voltage
Angel of Death : Dulcie Markham, Femme Fatale of the Australian Underworld by Leigh Straw; Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
This is the story of 'Pretty' Dulcie Markham, a key figure of the underworld of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, who, according to one crime reporter, 'saw more violence and death than any other woman in Australia's history'. Nicknamed the 'Black Widow' and 'Angel of Death' by the crooks, reporters and p ...Show more