| Author: | Nick Cummins |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
A fast, funny, deliciously feral collection of ripper yarns, jokes, and warped philosophy. Utterly unique, often baffling, always inspiring. Nick 'The Honey Badger' Cummins is loved all over the planet for his larrikin wit, amazing adventures and incredible... read more
| Author: | Gabbie Stroud |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging.
| Author: | Paul Simpson |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
What if Dorothy Gale wasn't the only person who went to see the Wizard of Oz? MGM's landmark 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, did not mark the beginning of adventures in Oz. Both before and since, dozens of tales have b... read more
| Author: | Pamela Paul |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
| Reading Level: | General Adult |
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from a... read more
| Author: | Derek Rielly; Bob Hawke |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke - Australia's 23rd and oldest living prime minister - has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the charismatic old master talk life, de... read more
| Author: | Andrew Webster; Matt Norman |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
| Reading Level: | 3 Biography |
Who is Peter Norman? He's the greatest Australian hero you don't know. Peter Norman is the 'forgotten man' in one of the most powerful and influential photos of all time. Peter is in the photo because he won Australia a silver medal at the 1968 Mexico Olympics after ... read more
| Author: | Garrard Conley |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and... read more
| Author: | John V. Southworth |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
| Series: | Sutton Ser. |
Man of the Millennium he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figure. His writings have been analyzed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemp... read more
| Author: | Stormy Daniels |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
"Standing up to bullies is my kind of thing."
How did Stormy Daniels become the woman willing to take on a president?
In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the... read more
| Author: | Jade Hameister |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself ... read more
| Author: | Elena Ferrante |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's... read more
| Author: | Susi Prescott |
| Category: |
Biography or Memoir |
Susi Prescott had it all. A large, busy family, a school teaching job she loved, a home on Sydney's leafy North Shore. But with the sudden demise of her thirty-year marriage, her world crumbles.
To everyone's surprise, especially her own, Susi makes a momento... read more
