So Anyway ... by John Cleese
$35.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripa ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outs ...Show more
The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people and sentenced to ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness (US PB) by Amos Oz
$29.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and ...Show more
Life As I Know It by Michelle Payne, John Harms
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
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
The Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
Forty-Four: A Tale of Survival by Graham Rundle
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
At age seven, Graham Rundle was taken by his father for a 'holiday' to Eden Park, a Salvation Army boys' home outside Adelaide. As soon as his father left, Graham was given old clothes to wear and told from now on he was known as '44'. This portrays what happened to Graham from 1959 until 1968, living i ...Show more
Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014 by Emily Herbert
$17.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
With his twinkling eyes, boundless energy and unrivalled natural wit, Robin Williams was the comedian who brought laughter to a generation. Through roles in cherished films such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Aladdin and Hook, he became the genial face of family comedy. His child-like enthusiasm was infect ...Show more
How to Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. He had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, films, video games and T ...Show more