537 Days of Winter: An Australian Antarctic Expedition Leader Stranded During the Pandemic by David Knoff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back home changed forever ? As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard mission when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, international travel came t ...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
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & 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
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...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
Ash Barty: Champion by Ash Barty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A young readers edition of Ash Barty's #1 bestselling memoir. It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today.My story is about the power and joy of doing that thing you love and seeing where it can take you, from the first time I ...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
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...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.
Big Mouth by Matt Preston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A rock n roll memoir of death, guns and the occasional scandal. For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and lar ...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
Diddly Squat by Jeremy Clarkson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Welcome to Clarkson's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seem ...Show more