The Rip Curl Story: 50 years of perfect surf, international business, wild characters and the search for the ultimate ride by Tim Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Rip Curl Story is the remarkable tale of two young surfers who pursued an audacious dream to make a living in pursuit of the ultimate ride. The brand they built, Rip Curl, not only satisfied their own surf- and wanderlust, but also inspired countless others, both fuelling and riding the wave of the ...Show more
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An explosive debut novel about dub reggae, love, loss and freedom set in late '70s and early '80s London, Bristol and Jamaica by a phenomenal new voice in fictionThis is our dancing time.Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the indust ...Show more
The Girl Who Touched The Stars by Bonnie Hancock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A gripping account of the record-breaking circumnavigation by iron woman Bonnie Hancock. It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. 254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest eve ...Show more
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger III; Jeffrey Zaslow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger--the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of ...Show more
The Shot by Gary Ramage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
The heart-stoppingly adrenalin-charged - and often dangerous - life and times of Australian war photographer, Gary Ramage. He goes where the troops go - but with a camera, not a gun. As Australia's premier war photographer - and as a former soldier - Gary Ramage has been in and out of just about every c ...Show more
Ac/Dc:Experience the Original Monsters of Rock by Jerry Ewing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
AC/DC tells the story of the world's biggest band. All of its members are analysed and tracked such as the Young brothers and the late, great Bon Scott. This definitive AC/DC experience pores over every album the band ever released, from 1974's groundbreaking High Voltage through 2008's monster Black Ic ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and pers ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Ficton | Reading Level: very good
I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there’s a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of A ...Show more
When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'We spoke to each other in endearments. My darling, my love, mon amour, ma cherie, poussin, mouton, bebe ...People we knew, I think, made fun of us. What they didn't know was that we couldn't say each other's names.' After a lifetime spent living firmly in English, Lauren Collins finds herself adrift in ...Show more
My Family's Keeper by Brad Haddin
$34.99 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
A cricket autobiography unlike any other; a universal story about how love for your family trumps everything. Specialist Australian wicket-keepers to wear the baggy green are a rare and tough breed. Since 1877, only a select few Australian cricketers have held the sport's toughest on-field position. By ...Show more
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason.
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional c ...Show more