Wild Game - My Mother, Her Lover and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicityEvery time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me.On a hot August night on Cape Cod, when Adrienne was 14, her mother Malabar woke her at midnight with five ...Show more
Wild Hope by Marisa Bate
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of miles from home. Behind a carefree smile lies a fierce hope, fuelled by the promise of a new beginning and the tapestry of opportunity an America of Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and the newly passed Roe ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed thre ...Show more
Will by Will Self
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Will Self is one of Britain's most famous and infamous contemporary writers, a public intellectual known for his sardonic worldview, his logophilia, and his wide-ranging interests, from psychogeography to socialism to hard drugs. His novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and been translated ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cel ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cele ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Wine Girl by Victoria James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An affecting memoir from a young sommelier, struggling to make her way into the glamorous but notoriously toxic restaurant world. At just twenty-one, Victoria James became America's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of ...Show more
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking u ...Show more