Not Like Other Dads by Sean Szeps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A funny, fearlessly frank and inspiring memoir about raising kids when the old rules don't apply.Sean had wanted to be a mum since the age of four, when he fell in love with Mrs Potts, the motherly teapot in Beauty and the Beast. But there was just one problem: he was not, in fact, a woman.When he was s ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
‘Epic, moving and important’ Robert Harris From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener w ...Show more
The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads by Ameliah Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads. "The inspiring story of the intrepid Dr Ameliah Scott - the Flying Vet extraordinaire - and the animals and community of the Australian outback. Ame ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Battling Demons, Finding an Angel - A Memoir by Sally Beavis (nee Tartakover)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A STORY OF GRIEF, SCHIZOPHRENIA, COURAGE AND LOVE This memoir defies categorisation. From class captain to domestic violence, infidelity and mental illness; from the shadows of mayhem and madness comes the uplifting love of a lifetime in the most unlikely place. Sally's pithy story will linger with you ...Show more
The Good Cop by Justine Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' - Ron IddlesIn an incredible 25 year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles's conviction rate was 99 percent. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'.Tough, inventive and incorruptib ...Show more
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeym ...Show more
Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Inspired by Apocalypse Now, Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra (washed down with its blood), and then into Cambodia, the Heart of Darkness, where he travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin). Othe ...Show more
The Devil Is Afraid of Me - The Life and Work of the World's Most Popular Exorcist by Marcello Stanzione; Gabriele Amorth
$32.99 AUD
$37.95 (13% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
So declared a frustrated host of devils to Father Gabriele Amorth, the priest exorcist in Rome who spent thirty years battling the devil and his minions by performing more than sixty thousand exorcisms. All the while, he deftly used modern media to awaken our disbelieving modern culture - and even the C ...Show more
Barney Greatrex: From Bomber Command to the French Resistance by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. Bomb ...Show more
No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is no ...Show more