Sophie's Boys by Sophie Smith; Deborah FitzGerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Sophie and Ash discovered they were expecting triplets, it was much more exciting than daunting. But when Sophie went into labour at only 21 weeks, their world was turned upside down. Though they fought fiercely they could not escape tragedy. Tiny Henry lived for just one cherished hour, Evan for 1 ...Show more
Going to the Mountain - Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'You empower yourself and then you reach out to others.?Uplifting life lessons from one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known... through the eyes of the grandson whose life he changed forever.In his book Going to the Mountain, Ndaba Mandela shares the story of his coming-of-age alongside Sout ...Show more
Best Seat in the House - My Life in the Jeff Healey Band by Tom Stephen; Keith Elliot Greenberg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But fe ...Show more
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Unabridged! When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers wer ...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
The Zookeeper's Wife - The true story of an unlikely heroine by Diane Ackerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Bestseller, 2008 Orion Book Award winner -- When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw -- and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside th ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition by Anthony Bourdain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bou ...Show more
The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
After years of adventuring around the globe - running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring - Beau Miles came back to his block in country Victoria. Staying put for the first time in years, Beau developed a new kind of lifestyle as the Backyard Adventurer. Whether it was walking 90km to work with no provi ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him - the last that he gave - as well as unfiltered access to his ex ...Show more
Speaking In Tongues by Tom Tilley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinvention From the outside, Tom Tilley's childhood seemed ordinary. The first son of a pastor, he grew up in a beautiful country town where life revolved around football, his loving family and their Pentecosta ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more