Without My Mum by Leigh Van Der Horst
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Perhaps the only thing that can impact and shape a woman's life with the same power as her mother's love and guidance is her mother's death. In Without My Mum, Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer in 2008. She invites us on a journey that is a ...Show more
Margaret Court: The Autobiography by Margaret Court
$44.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
"For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match Margaret Court" - The International Tennis Hall of Fame In 1970 Court became the first woman in the open era to win the singles Grand Slam (all four major tournaments in a calendar year). The youngest pla ...Show more
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
$21.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This remarkable book vividly evokes the first 24 years of the author's life in Calcutta and in his ancestral village in East Bengal. First published in 1951, it rapidly established itself as a classic work combining intimate memoirs with a sweeping, highly individual survey of Indian history and culture ...Show more
Inside Out : An Extraordinary Story of Ambition, Addiction and Redemption by Greg Fisher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When Greg Fisher was a child his mother said he'd either be very successful or end up in jail. After a comfortable upbringing in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Greg Fisher did what he thought a good Jewish boy should do. He married, had a child and started making his way up the corporate ladder. But after co ...Show more
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukrai ...Show more
The Cherry Picker's Daughter by Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert
$24.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights into the extraordinary strength, resilience and ing ...Show more
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
$46.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
"Ross Gay's eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us." --Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumu ...Show more
Ditch the Dead Weight - How My Toughest Choice Became My Greatest Mission by Mike Rolls
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Often in personal or professional development the sole focus is how to get more of something. Mike turns this idea on its head and asks, what could we potentially get rid of to make our lives lighter, freer and more meaningful? Practical, plain-speaking, humorous and inspiring, Mike is an incredibly eng ...Show more
The Outsider: Frederick Forsyth by Frederick Forsyth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE...At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. Before he turned thirty, he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil ...Show more
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having ta ...Show more
Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Routledge Classics
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life – introducing the people, events and influences that shaped th ...Show more
Of All That Ends by Gunter Grass
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer G3nter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world.Suddenly, in spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, everything seems possible again- love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, ...Show more