An Activist Life by Christine Milne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An Activist Life is the story of an apparently ordinary woman - a high-school teacher from Tasmania - who became a fiery environmental warrior and social justice advocate, pitted against the most powerful forces in the country. In this fascinating memoir, Christine Milne shares her life through objects ...Show more
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow by Suzanne Falkiner
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after publishing seven remarkable novels and several collections of poetry ...Show more
Casey Stoner: Pushing the Limits by Casey Stoner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Showing anything is possible when determination meets talent, Casey Stoner will share his inspirational journey from Queensland toddler, with an extraordinary ability on a motorbike, to his decision to retire at twenty-seven as two-time MotoGP World Champion.For the first time, Casey will tell of his ea ...Show more
Sophie's Boys by Sophie Smith; Deborah FitzGerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Sophie and Ash discovered they were expecting triplets, it was much more exciting than daunting. But when Sophie went into labour at only 21 weeks, their world was turned upside down. Though they fought fiercely they could not escape tragedy. Tiny Henry lived for just one cherished hour, Evan for 1 ...Show more
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"A must-read for anyone who thinks "build a wall" is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cant , the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cant joins the B ...Show more
Going to the Mountain - Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'You empower yourself and then you reach out to others.?Uplifting life lessons from one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known... through the eyes of the grandson whose life he changed forever.In his book Going to the Mountain, Ndaba Mandela shares the story of his coming-of-age alongside Sout ...Show more
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund WhiteEdmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up ...Show more
Fat, Fifty and F***ed: A Midlife Crisis Can be the Start of Something Explosive POD by Geoffrey McGeachin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Martin Carter is having a crook day. His home life's a misery, he's been retrenched by the bank and everyone's forgotten his birthday. But a million-dollar payroll, a pistol, and a split-second decision change everything. Hurtling north on a motorcycle with the intriguing Faith, Martin encounters a myst ...Show more
Best Seat in the House - My Life in the Jeff Healey Band by Tom Stephen; Keith Elliot Greenberg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But fe ...Show more
Her Mother's Daughter - A Memoir by Nadia Wheatley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Why didn't you and Daddy want people to give you any wedding presents?" I used to ask. But my mother could never be drawn into talking about the wedding. Later, I assumed it was because she did not wish to be reminded of the ghastly mistake she had made in marrying my father. Born in Australia in 1949 ...Show more
To Obama, With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped his presidency.Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters wri ...Show more
Made in Scotland by Billy Connolly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
All roads lead home.'After my knighthood was announced,a woman from the BBC came toGlasgow to interview me. We satdown in a lovely hotel in a nice partof town, and she hit me with her firstquestion- "This must mean a lot toyou, with you coming from nothing?"I looked at her, and I laughed."I did?nae come ...Show more