The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and 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
I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
I Had a Father in Karratha tracks a daughter's epic undertaking to honour her father while cleaning up his mess and, ultimately, laying him to rest. This is a fly-in fly-out marathon about commitment, responsibility, doggedness and love. What happens when your father dies and he's in the Pilbara, 4500 ...Show more
A Scar is Also Skin (PB) by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From bestselling author Ben Mckelvey comes the inspiring story of stroke, heart attack, survival and remaking a broken body and mind. A book for those who bought Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Osher Gunsberg's Back, After the Break and Emma Carey's The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. ...Show more
The Wolf You Feed by Andrew Webster
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Celebrated sports journalist Andrew Webster has been on a mission to find the real Wayne Bennett. Over the course of two years, he has interviewed family, close friends, sworn enemies, colleagues, journalists, coaches and players, as well as Bennett himself, and trawled through acres of print and recor ...Show more
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' Tara Westover, author of Educated 'To read it is to believe that words can save' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I've ever read' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun There ...Show more
Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor by Matthew McConaughey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the Academy Award -winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
Only: A Singular Memoir by Caroline Baum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a painfully honest and entertaining story of an unconventional c ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned.Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is ...Show more
Before & Laughter by Jimmy Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sa ...Show more
Invisible Child - Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty and racism in an unequal America. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, ...Show more
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent by Eddie Betts
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One thing’s for sure: it’s not easy. But then, there’s always been something special about Eddie Betts. Betts grew up in Port Lincoln and K ...Show more