My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me by Boris Mihailovic
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the suffering of healing and the epiphanies of speed then this book is for you. My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is about friend ...Show more
Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. This trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandso ...Show more
House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley by Swingler Susan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this ...Show more
Dancing with the Devil: A Journey from the Pulpit to the Bench by Christopher Geraghty
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of nearly forty, Christopher Geraghty stopped dancing with the devil and invited another partner out onto the dance floor. A Catholic priest for nearly fifteen years, Geraghty endured bullying and persecution. This, coupled with a desire for intimacy and belonging, eventually caused Geraghty ...Show more
Barack Obama: The Making of a Man by David Maraniss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Millions have read Barack Obama's "Dreams from my Father" and think they know his story. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss has produced a startling biography which reveals the true narrative of Obama's early years. In "Barack Obama", David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative wh ...Show more
Stronger Now by Nicole McLean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 12 October 2002, Bali was hit by the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. It claimed the lives of 202 people and left 240 injured. Nicole McLean was one of those 240. That night she lost her arm and was left fighting for her life. This is her extraordinary story. Shown through Nicole's eyes and ...Show more
Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse by Kristy Chambers
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
My quest for a career started early, when I was four years old and gave myself a haircut to see if I liked that sort of thing. I liked it plenty, but my mother did not. Much later in life, after moonlighting as a maid and enduring myriad other unsatisfying positions, I fell into nursing, the way one may ...Show more
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life by Ramona Koval
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona's Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar Wilde, Christina Stead to Grace Paley. It is about learning to ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable true story of one man? fight to turn the tide of low expectations, this account follows educatorChris Sarra from his humble beginnings in a large Italian-Aboriginal family to his triumphant achievements, including becoming Queensland's Australian of the Year, the subject of ABC's Australi ...Show more
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endur ...Show more
I Confess: Revelations in Exile by Kooshyar KARIMI
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a memoir by Sydney-based doctor and writer/translator, Kooshyar Karimi, who in 2000 managed to flee, with his family, certain torture and death which stalked him on a daily basis in his native Iran. Karimis sin was his Jewishness and the fact that he helped desperate girls and women who had been ...Show more
Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
One of the great revelations of William Shawcross's official biography was the Queen Mother's private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ...brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Now, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal ...Show more