Fifteen Seconds of Brave: The wisdom of survivors by Melissa Doyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In your darkest hour can you still find hope? In this intimate and insightful book, Melissa Doyle shares the stories of some of the most resilient people she has ever met, gently drawing out their wisdom, empathy and heartfelt practical advice for anyone who's going through a difficult time. When the wo ...Show more
Sultan: A Memoir by Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive left-handed striking, his leadership and his inspiration. For ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition by Anthony Bourdain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bou ...Show more
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, p ...Show more
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World by Elaine Pearson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come, and ...Show more
Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
$89.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
‘The closest we’ll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography — but who’d ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?’ – Rolling Stone. In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy Stardust. Twenty years later, it remains the closes ...Show more
The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon by Anthony Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Acclaimed travel and nature writer Anthony Ham spotlights the world's largest rainforest in this unique combination of international politics, conservation, true crime, travel, biography and memoir. When Chris Clark was born in Glasgow in 1960, the Amazon was still intact and magnificent. Over his lifet ...Show more
I, the Aboriginal: The Gripping Story of Waipuldanya, and His Journey to Become a Citizen of Both the Aboriginal and Whitefella Worlds by Douglas Lockwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The autobiography, as told to Douglas Lockwood, of Waipuldanya, a full blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land and to provide for his family with the aid only of his sp ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A Harte
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017, with a wave of popular adulation dubbed ‘Jacindamania’. Her victory seemed heroic: in less than three months, she ro ...Show more
A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A memoir about anxiety, our minds, and optimism in spite of it all Where do mental illness stories begin? Anna’s always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings – she’s never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious chi ...Show more