Jack and Eve
Wendy MooreRRP: £10.99
Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst’s chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a baron and fourteen years …
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The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins
Anthony HamRRP: £16.99
This is the story of Christopher Clark, a remarkable man who spent his life helping to save a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Clark’s strict childhood sent him far from home in sea …
Under Her Skin
Sue WilliamsRRP: £16.99
When three bombs tore out the heart of Bali and destroyed so many Australian lives in 2002, burns surgeon Professor Fiona Wood and her team were there to help. A pioneer in the field of burns and reco …
Nellie
Robert WainwrightRRP: £10.99
‘In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba…Robert Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels, took the …
Four Weeks in May
David Hart-DykeRRP: £12.99
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller’Electric… Outstanding.’ GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron o …
Gun to the Head
Keith BanksRRP: £14.99
Keith Banks was a member of the Queensland Police Force when not everyone with a badge could be trusted. Raw and confronting, Gun to the Head reveals what it was really like to be a tactical police of …
A Dominant Character
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £10.99
Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the …
Enid
Robert WainwrightRRP: £10.99
Enid Lindeman stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park on a diamond collar. In early twentieth-century society, where women were expe …
Daddy Cool
Darleen BungeyRRP: £14.99
‘Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister’s discoveries astonished me.’ Geraldine BrooksWho can ever truly know their parents?He was a glamorous heart-throb, a fa …
Truganini
Cassandra PybusRRP: £14.99
*Winner of the 2021 National Biography Award and shortlisted for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards*Cassandra Pybus’s ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their f …
Esther
Jessica NorthRRP: £14.99
Esther only just escaped the hangman in London. She was aged 16 when she stood trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black silk lace, worth fifty shillings, from Harrops’ Drapery. Her sentence was ‘ …
Barefoot Surgeon
Ali GripperRRP: £14.99
Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world’s medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundr …
Rocky Road
Robert WainwrightRRP: £14.99
In the early 1930s, the Australian family confectionery company Darrell Lea was a sensation, its shops stacked with delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more in line with the company’s …
The House
Helen PittRRP: £14.99
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn’t get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the wo …
The Lost War Horses of Cairo
Grant Hayter-MenziesRRP: £14.99
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery.Brought to t …
The Weight of a Mustard Seed
Wendell SteavensonRRP: £20.00
This is the account of one family’s struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Hussein’s savage dictatorship. A proud man, father and soldier struggles to protect himself, and his family, from tyran …
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