On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures by Wilbur Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The first ever memoirs from the Number One global bestselling adventure author. Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a re ...Show more
Richie Benaud: Those Summers of Cricket (HB) by Various
$43.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Collected together in words and pictures Those Summers of Cricket pays homage to Richie Benaud's life. The many contributions bring his life into sharp focus for the many generations who only know him as the 'voice' of cricket. And through each piece, often written by an ex-Australian cricket team membe ...Show more
Notes from the Velvet Underground - The Life of Lou Reed by Howard Sounes
$36.99 AUD
$39.99 (7% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American song writers of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and ...Show more
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
$42.00 AUD
$49.99 (15% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's ...Show more
Dane Swan: My Story by Dane Swan
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Dane Swan is a Brownlow medallist, three-time Copeland Trophy winner, premiership player and five-time All Australian. The road to success has been an impressive journey for this AFL player. A laid-back knockabout who loves a party. Swan is the son of VFA legend Billy Swan and grew up in Broadmeadows, ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Deng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever. At six years old, his mother was told she had to give him up to fight. At the age most Australian children are starting school , Deng was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He began a harsh ...Show more
Eleanor Marx: A Life: A Life by Rachel Holmes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For ye ...Show more
Ben Cousins: My Life Story by Ben Cousins
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership winner, voted the AFL's Most Valuable Player - but he's best known for what he has done ...Show more
Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The critically acclaimed number 1 bestseller in paperback. A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was ...Show more
Adele by Sean Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
Adele touches the hearts of millions of people who love her for her music and share the real and honest emotion she brings to each and every song. In a cynical age, she is a phenomenon. In Adele, bestselling biographer Sean Smith talks to those close to her as he follows her astonishing journey to fame ...Show more