438 Days: An Incredible True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. The storm picked up and carried him West, deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Alvarenga would not touch solid ground agai ...Show more
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby : Long Summers With My Dad by William McInnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
William McInnes is a talented writer and a natural storyteller. A tail-end baby boomer, he recalls summer holidays that seemed to go on forever, when he and his mates would walk down to fish in the bay; a time when the Aussie battler stood as the local Labor candidate and looked out for his mates; and a ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more
Auntie Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determination by Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Auntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy and racism to create a rich meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century. ‘Most peop ...Show more
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing ...Show more
Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruc ...Show more
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & 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
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer; Stuart Margulies; Don Mosenfelder
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A one-of-a-kind masterclass in chess from the greatest player of all time.Learn how to play chess the Bobby Fischer way with the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable method ever devised. Whether you're just learning the game or looking for more complex strategies, these practice problems and exercise ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
"How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure themselves against a set normal and find themselves lacking? When did I know that I was plump, and then fat? Fat child, self-denying adolescent, hungry young woman; a body now burgeoning uncontrolled into m ...Show more