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 Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Fran Lebowitz
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
A brilliant collection of acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious essays from New York icon Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City Fran Lebowitz is a New York legend. Arriving in the city over fifty years ago, she made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol's Inter ...Show more
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year 2023 by Barbra Streisand
$75.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isa ...Show more
A Year in the Mud and the Toast and the Tears: My (semi) rural kind of life by Georgie Brooks
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A laugh-out-loud account of a young family's misplaced confidence in themselves to become hobby farmers in rural Adelaide Hills, where their fantasies about life in the country are progressively destroyed and their almost total ignorance about everything agricultural is revealed... After buying an old c ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and pla ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: 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
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
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis ...Show more
Barefoot in the Bindis by Angela Wales
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Sheep Farming 1950's Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm i ...Show more
Prehistoric Joy by Andrew Sneddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Hailed as a real-life Boy Swallows Universe, a 'bold, brutal and unforgettable' memoir of growing up in the criminal underbelly of Queensland's Gold Coast in the 1980s.If being powerless makes you jumpy, then being poor makes you envious. You notice when other people are happy and you become keenly awar ...Show more