High Hopes: Making Music, Losing My Way, Learning to Live by Steve Garrigan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
'Steve beautifully communicates his vulnerabilities in his music -- he does the same in this powerful story' Niall Breslin As lead singer and songwriter of hugely successful Irish rock band Kodaline, Steve Garrigan plays to thousands of fans worldwide - his business is being in the spotlight. But, for y ...Show more
After the Tampa - From Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The heart-rending story of a seven-year-old 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. Escaping from Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, Abbas Nazari's parents fled the country in 2001 to find a safe place in which to bring up ...Show more
Albert Namatjira by Vincent Namatjira
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Vincent Namatjira tells the life story of his great-grandfather, Albert Namatjira, one of Australia's most iconic artists. Vincent's witty and moving paintings are accompanied by evocative text, which records the pivotal moments in Albert's life. In telling his great-grandfather's story, Vincent builds ...Show more
House of Gucci - A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed by Sara Gay Forden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office. In 1998, his ex-wife Patrizia ...Show more
Force Within: From Police Officer to Paralympia by Carol Cooke AM
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Three time Paralympian gold medallist Carol Cooke AM tells her life story with disarming honesty, a keen eye and gentle humour. Born into a policing family, Carol follows in their footsteps serving on the Toronto Police Force until love calls and she moves to Australia. Following a period of feeling unw ...Show more
Windswept and Interesting - My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | 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 is ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
Off the Charts by Georgie Carroll
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids, holding hands, keeping things ticking - and always with a smile on their face. In Off The Charts, Australia's favour ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
Lapsed by Monica Dux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Losing your religion is harder than it looks ... From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in a primary school play to blaspheming, undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her attitude to the Catholic Church changed profoundly over a decade. Another ten years and she'd calmed right down. Now s ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of ...Show more
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - a ...Show more