The House of Hancock - The Rise and Rise of Gina Rinehart by Debi Marshall
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From an early age Gina Rinehart knew she was heir to one of Australia's largest fortunes. Her father, Lang Hancock, loved her dearly and groomed her to take over the company. Then along came Rose, the Filipina housekeeper Lang married in 1985, and the obsessively private House of Hancock was changed for ...Show more
My Life by Bill Clinton
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a pres ...Show more
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$6.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
Cecilia: An Ex-nun's Extraordinary Journey by Cecilia Inglis
$6.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From the age of seventeen, Cecilia Cahill lived as Sister Mary Scholastica with the Sisters of Mercy in New South Wales. Isolated from family and friends, Cecilia worked as a teacher in the strict Order, observing her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, before eventually suffering a breakdown. Alth ...Show more
Dear Fatty by Dawn French
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
DAWN FRENCH is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge ste ...Show more
Openside: My Journey to the Rugby World Cup by David Pocock
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
As the runaway winner of the John Eales medal in 2010 and Australia's outstanding rugby test player after less than two years with the Wallabies, at 22 years of age David Pocock is the man everyone who knows Rugby is watching. Based on his spectacular rise and his incredible talent and drive, this book ...Show more
Kerry Stokes: The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. His success and his rise have intrigued the business world for decades but there is so much more ...Show more
Dannii: My Story by Dannii Minogue
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the long-awaited and deeply personal autobiography of pop singer and TV star Dannii Minogue. Dannii Minogue first appeared on television aged seven. She signed her first record deal at the age of seventeen and ever since she has been wowing audiences around the world with her charm and her chari ...Show more
Jeff - The Rise and Fall of a Political Phenomenon by Tony Parkinson
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'People really like me or they loathe me. for a long time, I couldn't understand why that was, but I have come to realise that I'm the sort of person who comes on so strong with people that they are either repelled or attracted.' Jeff Kennett
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Brontes by Juliet Barker
$14.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imagin ...Show more