In My Blood by Cheryl Koenig
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An extraordinary life, from ordinary beginnings. Optimism, resilience, audacity, hope, surviving daily challenges for themselves and those they love; carers embody all of these qualities. Cheryl Koenig's fifth book, a memoir, deals with all those human qualities necessary to not only survive a life-thre ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, t ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
The Hard Road Will Take You Home: What the Special Forces Teaches Us About Innovation, Endeavour and Next-Level Success by Anthony Stazicker
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A landmark personal development and business memoir by highly decorated Special Forces operative and recent star of TV show SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angel ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom; Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A h ...Show more
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Claire has returned from London to the dust and familiarity of her childhood home, only to realise something is wrong with her partner Maggie. Patrick is a lonely uni student, until he meets Caitlin - but does she feel as connected as he does? Ana is happily married with three children. Then, one night, ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more