Big Blue Sky by Peter Garrett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Peter Garrett's life so far has been deeply felt and fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, fierce intelligence and a questing and creative spirit, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives...From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney ...Show more
Frank Lowy: A Second Life by Jill Margo
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The brand new second volume of the biography of one of Australia's richest, most active and most influential men, Frank Lowy - an extraordinary story of challenge and achievement. Depending on the day, Frank Lowy is either the richest or the second richest man in Australia and his story - of his journey ...Show more
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's famous account of the 1996 Everest disaster, INTO THIN AIR, will remember the story of Beck Weathers: the gregarious Texan climber who went snow-blind in the Death Zone below the summit and who spent a night out in the open during a blizzard that took the lives of a do ...Show more
So, Anyway...: The Autobiography by John Cleese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Read by John Cleese with an introduction by Michael Palin. This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter?s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five ...Show more
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's activities, and terrorized at home by her father, wh ...Show more
All That Happened at Number 26 by Denise Scott
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Denise Scott moved into Number 26, with a husband, his circus equipment, a king-sized futon (but not a base), a Ventolin inhaler (to cope with stress-induced asthma), no savings to speak of and their newborn baby. The husband lost his eyebrows; the circus equipment multiplied, spilling over into any ava ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
The Tiger's Child by Torey L. Hayden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Torey Hayden's life - a story poig ...Show more
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy, and An Unqu ...Show more
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at twelve on foot through the des ...Show more
A Double Shot of Happiness by Judy Sharp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tim Sharp and his magnificent creation, Laser Beak Man, are now major names in the world of international art. But the journey to this point has been an extraordinary one. When Judy Sharp took her three-year-old son Tim to a paediatric specialist, he was diagnosed with autism so severe that she was told ...Show more
Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the wa ...Show more