Out of the Ashes: The Mothers love that healed the scars of the Bali Bombings by Megan Norris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
On Saturday 12th October 2002, Australian nurses, Therese Fox and Bronwyn Cartwright's idyllic holiday descended into their worst nightmare when they unwittingly found themselves in the midst of a callously orchestrated terrorist attack on two popular Balinese tourist nightspots which claimed the lives ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more
Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The debut collection of personal essays by comedy's most iconic voice Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen van Neerven
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport’s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, s ...Show more
Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive by Jelena Dokic
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you find your voice when you feel worthless and scared? In Jelena Dokic’s first bestselling book, Unbreakable, the former world No. 4 revealed her incredible survival story; how she overcame adversity, poverty ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
Ann Hannah, My Unremarkable Grandmother : A Psychological Biography by Betty McLellan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir