Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
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Category: Biography
The story of the woman who rose to be Director-General of Britain's Security Service, MI5, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1996. Stella Rimington worked to Director level in all main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. During her ...Show more
Ascent A life spent climbing on the edge by Sir Chris Bonington
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Category: Biography
'These well chronicled chapters of Chris's life read like the pages of an epic saga with all the battle and victory, triumph and tragedy, love and loss one would expect of a mythical hero.' - Leo Houlding 'Bonington was a fabulous and very creative climber. He brought Britain back to being a leading nat ...Show more
Pushing the Limits by Kurt Fearnley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself on, screaming, 'Who are you? Who are you?? And each time the answer that kept bouncing around in my mind was just- 'I am someone who will never stop. Someone who will never give up. Ever.?When Kurt Fearnley was a kid, he would leave his wheelch ...Show more
Life of Brine: A Surfer's Journey by Phil Jarratt
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Category: Biography
"In the not-so-small world of surfing, Phil Jarratt has seen it all. Luckily for us, he's a fearless, funny storyteller, with a reporter's unsentimental eye and an endearing modesty. But his memoir is, above all, a haunting self-portrait: the boy practising drop-knee cutbacks in his mother's full-length ...Show more
Alice's Daughter: Lost Mission Child by Jacki Ferro; Rhonda Collard-Spratt
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Category: Biography
'My story is not about blame. It's about sharing history that belongs to all of Australia. I needed a push, but I am happy to finally give little Rhonda a voice, so that my words will live on after I leave this world.' In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family and p ...Show more
Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle
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Category: Biography
This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them - the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ...Show more
Live, Lead, Learn by Gail Kelly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Gail Kelly's presence reaches far beyond her own profession. The first female CEO of one of Australia's big four banks, listed by Forbes in 2010 as the 8th most powerful woman in the world, and mother of four (including triplets), Gail is celebrated as one of Australia's finest, most innovative thinkers ...Show more
Down the Dirt Roads by Rachael Treasure
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'For me, being in a paddock means anything is possible . . .' Country girl and bestselling novelist Rachael Treasure had worked hard to build a long-dreamed-of lifestyle on her own patch of dirt in Tasmania's rugged and beautiful wilderness. But through the breakdown of her marriage, Rachael lost her fa ...Show more
Ubuntu: One Woman's Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa by Heather Ellis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one. At the age of twenty-eight, while sitting in a friend's backyard in the remote mining township of Jabiru, Heather Ellis has a light-bulb moment: she is going to ride a motorcycle across A ...Show more
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson
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Category: Biography
Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33. Ben Carson ...Show more
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth
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Category: Biography
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endur ...Show more