Without My Mum by Leigh Van Der Horst
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Perhaps the only thing that can impact and shape a woman's life with the same power as her mother's love and guidance is her mother's death. In Without My Mum, Leigh Van Der Horst shares her own honest, heartfelt story of losing her beloved mother to cancer in 2008. She invites us on a journey that is a ...Show more
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin by Donna-Lee Frieze
$62.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "genocide" and propelled the idea into international legal ...Show more
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom by RUBIN CARTER
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: 2
A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, this is a self-portrait of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a 20th-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. Exploring Carter's personal philosophy - born of the unimaginable duress of wrong ...Show more
It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays by Shane Dawson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
New York Times bestselling author Shane Dawson returns with another highly entertaining and uproariously funny essay collection, chronicling a mix of real life moments both extraordinary and mortifying, yet always full of heart. Shane Dawson shared some of his best and worst experiences in I Hate Mysel ...Show more
First they killed My Father by Loung Ung
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A daughter of Cambodia remembers. Soon to be a Netflix original movie directed by Angelina Jolie. Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of an educated, high-ranking government official. When the Khmer Rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from ...Show more
Is it Just Me? by Miranda Hart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometime ...Show more
The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman by Betsy Whyte
$16.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The Yellow on the Broom is the first part of Betsy Whyte's autobiography. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the life and customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 1930s, it is also a thought-provoking account of human strength and weakness, courage and cowardice, understanding and prejudice b ...Show more
Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son by Mark Colvin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Light and Shadowis the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent. Mark covered local and global events for the ABC for more than four decades, reporting on ...Show more
A Bold Life by Kerri-Anne Kennerley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
"Kerri-Anne Kennerley is Australia's queen of television. But behind the glamour of a public life is a private woman. And a survivor. A Bold Life is the tale of a Sandgate girl who chased her dream of being a cabaret star to New York, only to find herself stranded in a violent marriage to a dangerous dr ...Show more
My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky
$36.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Dover Value Editions Ser.
This priceless historical document by the Bolshevik leader features firsthand accounts from the top levels of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Trotsky chronicles the struggle to consolidate a government run by workers and peasants, along with the rift between Lenin and Stalin and its political ...Show more
Tough Customer - Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers by Allan Fels
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Memoirs
Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, especially when the big end of town is exploiting small businesses or consumers. During his twelve years as head of Australia's competition watchdog, he took on banks, airlines, supermarkets and big telcos to make sure Australians were getting a fa ...Show more
Little One: A Story of Family, Love and Sacrifice, and an Extraordinary Secret by Peter Papathanasiou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This is a powerful story about family and adoption, and the tensions and joys at work between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia.