The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Think Like a Monk: The Secret of How to Harness the Power of Positivity and Be Happy Now by Jay Shetty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life. Shetty writes, "I grew up in a family where you could become one of three things: a doc ...Show more
This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
If you feel that sense that there is something missing from your life, some gap between who you are on the inside and who you are on the outside - then this is the book for you. This is, as the title says, not actually a book about Benedict Cumberbatch. In fact, it's a book about women and what we love ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.'Brilliant' Edmund de Waal * 'Captivating' Nina Stibbe * 'Extraord ...Show more
Tiger, Tiger by James Patterson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How did Tiger Woods become the greatest of all time? And how did he fall so spectacularly? Before the age of twenty-five, Tiger Woods had risen to phenomenon status: twice named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, champion of more than thirty professional tournaments and the youngest player to ...Show more
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other. Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about climate change, and Claire O'R ...Show more
Top Walks in Victoria 2nd edition by Melanie Ball
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Victoria offers a jaw-dropping diversity of bushwalks through areas rich in natural wonders and colourful human history. Experienced travel writer Melanie Ball has hiked every track in this book for walkers of all levels of experience. There are walks for each part of the state, including the renowned W ...Show more
Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself – an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to unexpected places. Comedy has been Shaun’s escape, his guiding light, his refuge, his passport, his lifebuoy ...Show more
Turning Right - Inspire the Magic - How to Transform Who You Think You Are to Reach Your Highest Aspirations by Kay Bretz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sports | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling, un-put-downable account of the recreational marathon runner, Kay Bretz's transformation into one of the best ultra-marathon runners in the world. The reader follows the athlete during his physical and mental challenges and celebrates his hard fought wins, as he discovers motivation to succ ...Show more
Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future by Daniel Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BOOKS TO WATCH IN 2024Twelve amazing species of trees that can teach us about our past, present and future. In Twelve Trees, professor Daniel Lewis takes us around the world - from Australia to the United States, from Easter Island and Mexico to Cameroon - and introduces us to twe ...Show more