My Journey to the World Cup: Updated Edition by Sam Kerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie rules football as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes as she prepares to captain the Matildas in the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worl ...Show more
My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia’s First Women by Marlee Silva
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It is a culture that manifests as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It's also a culture that has consistently been led by its women. My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of ...Show more
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Megan Rapinoe is one of the world's most talented athletes. But beyond her massive professional success on the soccer field, Rapinoe has become an icon and ally to millions, boldly speaking out on the issues that matter most. In recent years, she's become one of the faces of the equal pay movement and h ...Show more
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age o ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his forced exile after being captured and tortured by the Taliban, to incarceration in an Australian detention centre...and finally to freedom. A poignant and powe ...Show more
Say Hello by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A forthright, honest and rousingly brave memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. What she has to live with, and what she confronts on a day to day basis will have you cheering for her and her courage. Say hello to Carly. 'In fairytal ...Show more
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Nedd Brockmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10 times' to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers. When Nedd Brockmann set out to run the 3,953 kilometres from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach in the fastest k ...Show more
Survivor: Life in the SAS by Mark Wales
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A powerful, honest story of courage, redemption and finding purpose' - Bear Grylls How do you rebuild your life when you've hit rock bottom? Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan. Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield twelve hours later, his mento ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$34.99 AUD
$36.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
The Cherry Picker's Daughter by Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert
$17.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights into the extraordinary strength, resilience and ing ...Show more