Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This ...Show more
Hawkwind - Days of the Underground - Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia by Joe Banks
$72.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Strange Attractor Press Ser.
An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spec ...Show more
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into' EMMYLOU HARRIS Born into music royalty, daughter of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwrig ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more
Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Kurt Cobain's life and death fast became rock 'n' roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, Nirvana, defined the music scene in the early 1990s and their songs spoke to and for a generation. Music journalist Charles R. Cross, a veteran of the Seattle music scene, relates this extraordinary story o ...Show more
Who I Am - Charlotte Rampling by Charlotte Rampling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Oscar-nominated Charlotte Rampling most recently appeared in hit ITV drama Broadchurch, the BBC's London Spy and HBO's Dexter, and the feature film 45 Years. Her career has spanned popular entertainment and arthouse cinema, having starred in English, French and Italian films from 1966's Georgy Girl (opp ...Show more
Beyond Alice by Tanya Heaslip
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the happiness and freedom of her bush childhood, Tanya Heaslip is sent to a boarding school sixteen hundred kilometres away from everything and everyone she loves. As these years pass surrounded by the friends she makes, Tanya's memoir is a humorous and inspiring story of strength, resilience and t ...Show more
Camino by Shirley MacLaine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
The author and actress chronicles her journey along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain--the famous pilgrimage route that has been taken by pilgrims ranging from St. Francis of Assisi to Chaucer.
Before You Judge Me - Being David by David Oldfield
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Before you Judge Me, Being Davidis a less traditional biography andmore of a 'conversations with.' or'lessons I've learnt' in the style ofbook.It is David's views on the worldwe're living in what's right withit; what's wrong with it. We learnwhat makes David tick; why hethinks the way he thinks and what ...Show more
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more