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Growing up in country Australia, and after years of below-average school results, Jon Johanson was told by career advisers that he would achieve little. But Jon has gone on to...

MARATHON MAN is an uplifting story of an extraordinary achievement - all the more inspiring given that the author was an inexperienced long-distance runner and only 20 when embarking on...

Having lived the first half of her life as male, Rebecca Norton sought medical intervention to become a woman, only to find that those whose support she longed for could...

A New York Times Editor's Pick "It is a blunt observation, reflective of the potent message she delivers to her readers, a skillful unraveling of the myth of the submissive...

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as...

The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 20th century" ( Entertainment Weekly ) Martha...

Norman Lewis was the best not-famous writer of his generation, and a better writer than almost all who were. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he wrote books that have...

In May 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try to beat the world solo...

Writing about Hugo Vickers s last book for Hutchinson, Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, a succession of fellow biographers applauded Vickers s unique skill. Masterly . . . Hugo Vickers s...

The inspiration for the HBO (R) Original Documentary, Rock Hudson : All that Heaven Allowed , airing June 28! The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee...

Manly P. Hall's prolific writings revealed to thousands how wisdom could be found in the myths and symbols of the ancient Western teachings. The dramatic story of his life and...

Harold Larwood's own version of the great 1932-1933 Ashes cricket series, with full scores and annotated photographs from his own collection. A cricket classic, first published in 1933. Harold Larwood...

Glines provides a full and compelling portrait of a Norwegian American pilot overshadowed in his lifetime by Admiral Richard Byrd but whose expertise and vision continue to guide trans-Artic a...

In this guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon...

The book titled Into the Sun by the author Claude Thompson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Fred Mckay by the author Maisie McKenzie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jack and Lem explores the enduring friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne Billings (aka "Lem"). Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the...

This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday...

Recounts the story of a seventeen-year-old German Jew hiding in Paris who set in motion the events that led to World War II.

The book titled A Damned Serious Business by the author Sir Rex Harrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical...

The book titled Jean Batten: The Garbo of the Skies by the author Ian Mackersey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Razzle Dazzle by the author Moira Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace." - The New Yorker "A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great...

'The Leibniz biography for our time. It is difficult to even begin to do justice to his rich spirit, but Kempe succeeds' Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World Gottfried...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER " My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty...

Features the real-life saga of the experiences of the Pushman family in the Second World War. Illustrated with family photographs, this book gives the reader a personal glimpse into both...

Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11Õs moon landing, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of AmericaÕs most famous astronaut, Neil ArmstrongÑthe man...

The war letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell 1939-45. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alan Mitchell was a foreman at McPherson's bolt factory in Richmond. Eileen Griffin was...

In this personal account of Moore''s life and work, John Hedgecoe''s photographs communicate the genius of Moore''s work, illustrating not only the major sculptures, but also the influences throughout his...

The book titled The Great Scientists by the author John Farndon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Audacity to Believe by the author Shelia Cassidy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Kenneth Slessor by the author Dennis ed Haskell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A posthumously published autobiography from the famous, even infamous, Irish playwright and author of Borstal Boy. Continuing the longstanding tradition of political Irish literature, propagated by James Joyce and Sean...

p>In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny Gipsy Moth across Londonrsquo;s Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person...

The revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination against women in science. Emmy Noether is one...

WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet...

The book titled Don't Stand on the Grass - Memoirs of Early Nursing in Australia: by the author Fleur Finnie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written PICTORIAL GUIDES TO THE LAKELAND FELLS have been an inspiration to walkers for over forty years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television...

At 20 years of age, Ross Gregory was selected to play cricket for Australia. He went on to play alongside Bradman before enlisting in the RAAF and serving in England...

Enter a world of mystery and hauntings fair and foul . the best ghost stories you will read for a long time ... from the author of the bestselling Ancient...

A history of the first-flight race documents the efforts of such Wright brothers' competitors as the Smithsonian's Samuel Pierpont Langley, Glenn Curtiss, and Alexander Graham Bell.

From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. With her aviation licence and...

Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects...