My Wild Ride: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman's Faith and Determination Helped Her Overcome Life's Greatest Odds by Fiona Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fiona Johnson was born a city girl. But she was always drawn to horses. Aged 10 she saved all of her pocket money to buy a saddle at a garage sale. Eventually, after months of nagging her parents, she persuaded them to buy her a horse to go with the saddle. And so began a life-long love affair with hors ...Show more
Pray For Me by Robert Moynihan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis Benedict XVI's retirement made news around the world, and changed the dynamics of the Catholic Church. The new pope, Francis I, has already brought a breath of fresh air into the papacy, the Vatican and the faith which has been beset by scandal in recent ti ...Show more
Boy Lost A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms at a train station in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, and in no way prepared for this final blow. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kris ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher:The Autobiography by Margaret Thatcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. No other prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as she did. This is the story of her remarkable life in her own words - the definitive account of an extraordi ...Show more
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel Smith
$36.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Anxiety once paralyzed Daniel Smith over a roast beef sandwich, convincing him that a choice between ketchup and barbeque sauce was as dire as that between life and death. It has caused him to chew his cuticles until they bled, wear sweat pads in his armpits, and confess his sexual problems to his psych ...Show more
Love, Sweat and Tears: One Woman's Incredible Journey Through Grief, Fear and Loss to a Lifelong Dream of Working with Animals by Zelie Bullen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspirational true story of a remarkable young woman who overcame an underprivileged childhood, personal tragedy and depression to work as a stunt woman and then as one of the most successful animal trainers in Australia, if not the world. Zelie's love of animals and their affection for her has kept ...Show more
The Girl With No Name by Marina Chapman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. 'It all happened so quickly. One minute I was squatting on the bare earth, preoccupied with popping pea pods, and the next I saw a flash of ...Show more
Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
$10.00 AUD
$19.99 (49% off)
Category: Memoir
A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other.
A History of Silence : A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."--The Guardian "Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to w ...Show more
On My Knees: A Memoir by Periel Aschenbrand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
On My Knees is Periel Aschenbrand's seriously funny follow-up to her debut memoir The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own. At the beginning of On My Knees, we find Periel chain-smoking her days away on a plastic-covered couch, watching reruns of Law & Order while she squats in her deceased grandmother's ap ...Show more
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and ...Show more
Changing Gears: In Search of a Simpler Life by Greg Foyster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Greg Foyster wakes one day and realises his job in advertising is hopelessly at odds with how he wants to live. Looking for inspiration, he and his partner Sophie decide to cycle from Melbourne to Far North Queensland (via Tasmania, naturally) scouting out ways to live more simply. On the road, the coup ...Show more