Category: Autobiography
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
Stalled on the precipice of adulthood, Iris doesn't know where her life post-college will lead and, to be honest, it's not a primary concern. She's tried applying for jobs, she's dipped her toes into dating, and she's become Manhattan's resident expert at finding ways to distract herself from what she r ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
'Rising Heart will never leave you; searing, powerful, disturbing, hopeful.' The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. In 1999, Sierra Leone teenager Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped from her father's ...Show more
Category: Biography
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, A National Book Award Finalist A profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a black father for his son, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, an ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
First published twenty years ago by Picador, Peter Blazey's audacious, irresistible autobiography Screw Loose will be available in a revised edition with a foreword by the Honourable Michael Kirby. Candid and at times provocative, these self-styled "uncalled-for memoirs" encompass five decades in the li ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself on, screaming, 'Who are you? Who are you?? And each time the answer that kept bouncing around in my mind was just- 'I am someone who will never stop. Someone who will never give up. Ever.?When Kurt Fearnley was a kid, he would leave his wheelch ...Show more
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In Life As I Know It, Michelle Payne tells her deeply moving story. It will lift your spirits, stir your heart and give you courage. Michelle was put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was to win the Melbourne Cup. At thirty she rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Cup. ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result.In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a ...Show more
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The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his sti ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
Meet the Beast that beat the Mountain.Eddie 'The Beast? Hall is the first Brit in 24 years to win the World?s Strongest Man competition, beating The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Everything about Eddie is huge. Standing at 6?3 he weighs almost 30 stone, and to make it through his hellish four-hour gym ...Show more
Category: Autobiography
In the seventies Michael Palin's life revolved around Monty Python; in the 1990s it was acting. Now a new career opens up as a traveller with AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
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