Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it. 'BETWEEN THE STOP ...Show more
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$23.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), ...Show more
One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao's New China. Yet he knew if he devoted hi ...Show more
Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly, Rebecca Lister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While Rebecca deals with her ...Show more
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers by Nicholas Irving; Gary Brozek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear . . .Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing,The Reapertells the incredible true story of the legendary Nicholas Irving, and his journey from wayward Maryland kid to the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest Master Sniper. From the brotherhood an ...Show more
The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon by Anthony Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Acclaimed travel and nature writer Anthony Ham spotlights the world's largest rainforest in this unique combination of international politics, conservation, true crime, travel, biography and memoir. When Chris Clark was born in Glasgow in 1960, the Amazon was still intact and magnificent. Over his lifet ...Show more
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't ...Show more
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was not to be, thanks to her eccentric taxidermist father and a truly bizarre family life. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humour in the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend ne ...Show more
Mr Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A moving true story of the unlikely friendship between two people who had nothing and ultimately everything in common. Carol Wall was at a crossroads. Her children had flown the nest, her beloved parents were ageing and she had overcome a serious illness. A neglected garden should have been the least of ...Show more
Reservoir Dad by Clint Greagen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy...' Best Australian Blog 2013 judge Kerri Sackville sums up the feelings of the legions of fans of Reservoir Dad, aka Clint Greagen, a stay-at-home dad who t ...Show more
Desperate Voyage by John Caldwell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year. Eager to reach his destination and unable to secure any other form of transport, he had to resort to singlehanded seamanship. After an ignominious scene in the harbor, where ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more