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Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
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 acclaimed memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, K ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$55.00 AUD
$65.00 (15% off)
Category: Biography or Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
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
Heroes Next Door by Johnson, Samuel & Hinton, Hilde
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
From bestselling authors Samuel Johnson and Hilde Hinton comes a moving, funny, irreverent, inspiring and big-hearted book that shows us all that resilience and kindness are what make the difference, and that you don't have to travel far to find good people ... often they are right next door. When Samu ...Show more
Australian Women Pilots: Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air by Kathy Mexted
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
There's a lot of aeroplanes and aviators down in that water. Thank God I'm not one of them.From pioneering and outback flights to delivering Spitfires or tackling the jungles of New Guinea, Australian Women Pilots tells of ten Australians with extraordinary stories.Women have been flying since the early ...Show more
Biographic Beethoven by Marcus Weeks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer, a musical prodigy whose Symphony No. 5 is recognizable the world over from its opening four notes. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was almost completely deaf for nearly half his life; that his father would often lie ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography or 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
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir by John Cook; Jon Bauer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as: 'The Keeper of the Flame'. John's renowned as one of the last of the "kerosene keepers": he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchan ...Show more
Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth by Jeff Maynard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced h ...Show more
Money for Something by Mia Walsch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
A scramble through drug addiction, mental illness and the Sydney sex industry in the early millennium. It's easy to talk to these women, tell them my deepest secrets. Look where we are. What else do we have to hide? When nineteen-year-old Mia is fired from her job at an insurance company, she makes the ...Show more
A Question of Colour - My Journey to Belonging by Patricia Lees; Adam C. Lees (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Depart ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Film Tie In Edition) by J. D. Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close 'The political book of the year' Sunday Times 'A frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir ... A superb book' New York Post 'I bought this to try to better understand Trump's appeal ... but th ...Show more