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A Promised Land: The Presidential Memoirs (Vol 1. HB) by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub Catch a Rising Star as a twenty-one-year-old student in autumn of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved eve ...Show more
Into Africa: The dramatic re-telling of the Stanley-Livingstone story by Martin Dugard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 1866 Britain's foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, went in search of the answer to an age-old geographical riddle: where was the source of the Nile? Livingstone set out with a large team, on a course that would lead through unmapped, seemingly impenetrable terrain into areas populated by fearsom ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clue ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
*** FREE JIMMY BARNES ALARM CLOCK FOR AS LONG AS STOCK LASTS WHEN YOU PURCHASE THE BOOK*** From the rock legend turned master storyteller, this collection of non-fiction short stories is vintage Jimmy. Stories of adventure, misadventure, love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of the critically ac ...Show more
When the Ship Hits the Fan by Rob Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Captain Rob Anderson spills the beans on a lifetime of incidents, accidents and shenanigans of every type, in every ocean of the world, during an era when the seas were largely unregulated and more like the Wild West than anything witnessed on land. Since he first went to sea at 15 Captain Rob has b ...Show more
Love Clancy: A Dog's Letters Home, Edited and Debated by Richard Glover by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They ...Show more
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather. While she was still a child, Nat ...Show more
