Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Max Verstappen: The unstoppable force in Formula One by Ewan McKenzie
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
A fully illustrated biography of Max Verstappen, from karting in the junior races at age 10 to his third time winning the World Championship at the end of 2023. Max's journey to Formula 1 stardom was not a typical one. His parents are both motorsport talents. He was born in Belgium to mum Sophie Kumpen, ...Show more
True Spirit: The Aussie girl who took on the world by Jessica Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit.TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, theitinerary, what she did to ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
Sons of Beaches by Bill McDonough
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
Family, fame and tragedy, the story of Australian Crawl's Bill and Guy McDonough. Founded in 1978, Australian Crawl has sold over 2 million records and been awarded some of Australia's highest music accolades, including an induction to the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1996. This is the true story of two brother ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition by Phil Knight
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies | Series: new editon
"An eye-opening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company." --School Library Journal"A great story about how an ambition turned into a business...serves as a guide for accomplishing great things." --VOYAIn this young reader's edition of the New York Times bestseller, Nike foun ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LISTSo, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs and biographies | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more