Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Ray: "Traitor or Patriot? Now we have Edward Snowden’s own story — high-school dropout; hacker; joined the Army after 9/11; top secret security clearance at the age of 22. Will make you wonder about the wisdom of Australia sharing its intelligence with the U.S. And make you worry about how much the gov ...Show more
Perspective by Ellyse Perry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A POINT OF VIEW , A STATE OF MIND - PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING. A book of shared insights from one of Australia's most exceptional athletes. Ellyse Perry is among the all-time cricket greats, and the only player, female or male, to represent Australia in both cricket and football World Cups, making her ...Show more
What Are The Odds? The Bill Waterhouse Story by Bill Waterhouse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
"The tell-all tale - on and off the track - of a legendary man and his extraordinary family.The Waterhouse name is synonymous with Australian horse racing and bookmaking. For the first time, the family s patriarch, Bill Waterhouse, tells the story of his remarkable life playing the odds . Bill Waterhous ...Show more
For the Record by David Cameron
$49.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain's first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first outright Cons ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing by Sian Prior
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A compelling, personal and fearless examination of a life lived without children of one's own, from Melbourne writer, broadcaster and journalist Sian Prior.I always wanted to have children. The earth might be in trouble-overpopulated, descending into ecological crisis-but I was always sure my kids would ...Show more
True Friends by Patti Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A revealing and relatable memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships. 'It's hard to know exactly when the friendship with Gina ended. It could have been when the sudden text message from her arrived, or it could have been a slow slide out of favour that I willed myself not to see. What matters ...Show more
Childhood: Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Shannon Burns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn't last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks later, she tracked him down and said she was pregnant. So he moved back in with her and they prepared themselves for parenthood. Eleven months later I was born. By the time my father discovered the decepti ...Show more
Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss ...Show more
Strife by Mia Freedman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'Whenever women are honest about their struggles, they give other women a gift. Mia delivers.' Elizabeth Gilbert This book is for every woman who's been told success is as simple as Lean In, Say Yes, Live Your Best Life, Beat Your Fear, Follow Your Dream ... and then feel #soblessed. It's for guilty fr ...Show more
Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and b ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more