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
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...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
Island Home by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...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
The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Praise for Corey White's stand-up- 'Captivating' Tom Gleeson 'It's a spiritually enriching show. Whitey has safer hands than Gilchrist circa 2003 ... Strap in for this one, it's a harrowing little number that leaves you in a good mood, quite a feat.' Herald Sun 'Corey White runs the full gamut of human ...Show more
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly LVO
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's Personal Advisor, ...Show more
The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist by Donald Horne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies — The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) — in one volume. Describing his formative years as he strays far from home, i ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Outback Songman: My Life by Ted Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The life of one of Australia's great raconteurs and bush musicians, told in his own words.