Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
Stages A Memoir by Reg Livermore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Reg Livermore has received three lifetime achievement awards in the last three years – he hopes they aren’t trying to tell him something. Now on the eve of his eightieth birthday, one of Australia’s most acclaimed stage actors looks back on some of the relationships, triumphs and tragedies that have def ...Show more
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours aday, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endur ...Show more
Jim's Book: The Surprising Story of Jim Penman - Australia's Backyard Millionaire by Catherine Moolenschot
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the authorised biography of Jim Penman, the founder of Jim's Mowing, now the Jim's Group. The Jim's brand is known by most Australians, yet the founder is hardly known. In 1982 Jim Penman turned a one-man mowing business into an empire of 3786 franchisees across 50 divisions from antennas to win ...Show more
A Lasting Conversation: Stories on Ageing by Susan Ogle (Editor); Melanie Joosten (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A Lasting Conversation, Stories on Ageing explores many a spec ts o f ageing including resilience and defeat, satisfaction and reg ret, excitement and fear, love, loss and laughter. These stories are written from various perspectives, including older women and men, their daughters and sons, grandchildre ...Show more
Stephen Hawking A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position in popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and their friendship, offering an ...Show more
Own it : Oprah Winfrey in Her Own Words by Jeanne Engelmann
$16.98 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: In Their Own Words
The public's appetite for all things Oprah Winfrey has waned little since her Chicago TV debut in 1983. Known as a self-help guru and the "Queen of All Media," Oprah (it's almost impossible not to refer to her by her globally recognized first name) has been shining light on social issues and encouraging ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Me ...Show more
Montebello: A Memoir by Robert Drewe
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.' In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even tod ...Show more
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
Stand Strong : You can overcome bullying (and other stuff that keeps you down) by Nick Vujicic
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspirational and bestselling author of Life Without Limits offers insights, encouragement, motivation, and practical directions on how young people can overcome personal challenges - like poor self esteem, bullying and failure. With no arms, no legs and no defence, Nick Vujicic has been a bully's ...Show more