Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ‘I wasn’t ...Show more
Kate Kelly: The True Story of Ned Kelly's Little Sister by Rebecca Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Kate Kelly has always been overshadowed by her famous brother Ned, but the talented young woman was a popular public figure in her own right. This moving biography tells her astonishing story in full for the first time.Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously fou ...Show more
Smart, Stupid and Sixty by Nigel Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the bestselling author of Fat, Forty and Fired comes this entertaining, thought-provoking and poignant account of turning sixty. Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job. In Fat, Fo ...Show more
Big Mouth by Matt Preston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and 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
Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia by Om Dhungel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of ...Show more
Last Shot: A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption by Jock Zonfrillo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens.
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world by Jessica Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit.TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, theitinerary, what she did to ...Show more
The Summertime of Our Dreams by Michael Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Ji ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir HB by Grace Tame
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find he ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more