We Have Always Been Here (PB) by Samra Habib
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Triumphant and uplifting - a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom. 'Revolutionary' Mona Eltahawy * 'Exquisite, powerful and urgent' Stacey May Fowles * 'I fell in love with this book' Shani Mootoo A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a th ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
When the Ship Hits the Fan by Rob Anderson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Rob Anderson went to sea at 15. But when he became one of the youngest Australian Captains ever, it was suddenly his responsibility to keep everything afloat. Whether stashing a headless body in a cargo freezer, or nearly losing his scrotum in a Japanese spa, it was all part of the job for Captain Rob. ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
The Girl With No Name by Marina Chapman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. This is her truly astonishing story.
Never Give up Son by Mario Guerres
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the story of a mother, who even with the loss of her husband to a mental asylum in cruel circumstances and death of her son, never gave up through the downfalls and struggles in her life during the Great Depression and racism against Italians at the time in New South Wales, Australia. It was no ...Show more
My Mother the Spy: The Daring and Tragic Double Life of ASIO Agent Mercia Masson by Cindy Dobbin, Freda Marnie Nicholls
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The true story of an undercover ASIO agent who was hung out to dry in the Cold War. 'I have lost everything in coming here. I have lost my friends... I have probably lost my position; I shall probably have to remove my child from the school and my mother from the house in which she lives. I do not thin ...Show more
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins, took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world.
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
No Finish Line by Johnny Ruffo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A rags-to-riches memoir of a cheeky tradie who stole Australia's hearts on The X Factor and Home and Away, then faced the biggest battle of his life: brain cancer. Johnny Ruffo came to Australia's attention when he entered The X Factor in 2011. A concreter with a cheeky smile and long-held passion for m ...Show more
Charles III The Making of a King by Alison Smith (Text by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Charles III: The Making of a King celebrates the new King in the year of his coronation. The beautiful gift book includes a timeline of key events from Charles' life, and explores the future of the monarchy through photographs and paintings of the wider royal family, including Diana, Princess of Wales, ...Show more
Every Living Thing by James Herriot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
<b>The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series <i>All Creatures Great and Small.</i></b> In <i>Every Living Thing </i>James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucr ...Show more