Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass ...Show more
Healing Lives hamlin gashe by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: CATHERINE HAMLIN
Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the world's poorest and most desperate women. Healing Lives reveals the untold tale of Mamitu Gashe, Dr Catherine Hamlin's protégée, and the inspiring almost 60-year friendship between the two women.In 1962, ...Show more
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub Catch a Rising Star as a twenty-one-year-old student in autumn of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved ever ...Show more
Lioness: The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as LION by Sue Brierley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a world away in Tasmania is every bit as riveting. In this ...Show more
Untwisted: The Story of My Life by Paul Jennings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors. Sometimes, rather than making you laugh or cry out in surprise, a story will instead leave you wondering about human fragility. In the telling of his own tale, childr ...Show more
Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is the ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more
Truths from an Unreliable Witness: Finding laughter in the darkest of places by Fiona O'Loughlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir from one of Australia's most loved comedians shows us that no matter how far down you get, there is always a way back. Fiona O'Loughlin was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard ... unless there were guests in the house. Then she ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
Unseen by Jacinta Parsons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn’t go away. Doctors couldn’t explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually t ...Show more
Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth Von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being happy.' Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early 20th century's most famous - and forgotten -authors. Born in Sydney in the mid 1800s, she went on to write many internationally bestselling novels, marry a ...Show more