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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Cricket As I See It

Allan Border

RRP: £12.99

Allan Border is an elder statesman of Australian cricket. In the twenty years since he retired as captain he’s been one of the game’s closest and most astute observers. His views on cricket – based on …

Fighter Pilot

Mac 'Serge' Tucker

RRP: £9.99

Mac Tucker, or ‘Serge’ to use his callsign, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal wh …

I, Migrant

Sami Shah

RRP: £12.99

Despite being nearly killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia. He had fronted his own …

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The Baby Boom

P.J. O'Rourke

RRP: £9.99

The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, ‘We are the world.’What’s so funny about peace, love …

Afterlife

Barry Eaton

RRP: £12.99

So what does happen when someone dies? What does it feel like? Why do some people find it hard to leave places and loved ones behind? And how do people who die in accidents and other sudden deaths far …

Charles Bean's Gallipoli

Phillip Bradley

Charles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to …

Dancing With a Cocaine Cowboy

Robyn Windshuttle

RRP: £12.99

This is the extraordinary story of a free-spirited girl from Sydney’s northern beaches who was catapulted into the middle of a European cocaine ring on her first day in Paris. A dancer with the Moulin …

Flight Command

John Oddie

RRP: £14.99

As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …

The Interior Circuit

Francisco Goldman

RRP: £9.99

The Interior Circuit is Goldman’s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico C …

Wisdom For Your Life

Katrina Cavanough

RRP: £8.99

As a therapist and frontline social worker in a busy emergency department, Katrina faces psychological trauma, death and grief every day of her working life. What makes her story so powerful is that K …

Starting With Max

Ying Ying

RRP: £8.99

My dog has demonstrated a grand theory about life’s simplest activities. He acts out the meaning of life by actively living it. Do not think so much about yourself, he tells me. Know where you’re goin …

The Forgotten General

Jock Vennell

RRP: £9.99

The Forgotten General highlights the courage, intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men …

The Nullarbor Kid

Ray Gilleland

RRP: £9.99

‘If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you had helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates. …

Mozart in the Jungle

Blair Tindall

RRP: £10.99

Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has be …

Making Soapies in Kabul

Trudi-Ann Tierney

RRP: £12.99

On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly …

Tolstoy

A. N. Wilson

RRP: £35.00

A. N. Wilson’s Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon.In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the comp …

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