In the Name of Honour by Mukhtar Mai
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific rape, custom dictated that she would kill herself. But Mai def ...Show more
The David Teakle Saga by Laurence John Hartley Teakle
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
David Teakle (1810-1895), a son of John Teakle, was in South Australia in 1836 when the governor announced the opening of a new area for settlement. He went hope to talk his family and relatives into joining him in immigration from England to South Australia. By late 1837, David and his family immigrate ...Show more
WHERE FATE BECKONS : THE LIFE OF JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA PEROUSE by JOHN DUNMORE
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
T. J. Ryan - A Political Biography by D. J. Murphy
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: UQP Biography Ser.
It is timely that this new edition should be published in the historic first year of the Labor government of Wayne Goss, a leader who has already invited comparisons with T. J. Ryan. T. J. Ryan was a natural leader. In 1915 he was elected Labor Premier of Queensland against the turbulent background of ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$36.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Mirrors of Greatness - Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds
$37.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his ...Show more
Cook: From Sailor To Legend by Rob Mundle
$5.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled the centuries-old mystery surrounding the existence of Terra Australis Incognita - the great south land; became th ...Show more
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memo ...Show more
This Rare Spirit - A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered far and away the best living woman poet in her day. The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sasson, Walter de la ...Show more
Keith Hancock : The Legacies of an Historian by D. A. Low (ed)
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE