Big Blue Sky: A memoir by Peter Garrett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives.From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, to an early interest in equality and justice; from ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the time Lauren first laced up her running shoes to dominate boys in her neighbourhood, through puberty when half of all girls abandon sports for good, into the NCAA where young women routinely starve and hurt themselves, and into elite running where she had to be 'fast and fuckable' to fit into th ...Show more
Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for commun ...Show more
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader - and catches the eye of driven, handsome an ...Show more
No Spin: The autobiography of Shane Warne by Shane Warne, Mark Nicholas
$18.39 AUD
$22.99 (20% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1993 at Old Trafford, Manchester, a young blond leg-spinner bowled the ball that was heard around the world. In the years that followed, there were plenty of deliveries that all but matched it. Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The bowler who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five ...Show more
Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation by Hannah Gadsby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 17
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global s ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
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$19.99 (49% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more