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
Margaret Court: The Autobiography by Margaret Court
$44.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
"For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match Margaret Court" - The International Tennis Hall of Fame In 1970 Court became the first woman in the open era to win the singles Grand Slam (all four major tournaments in a calendar year). The youngest pla ...Show more
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
$21.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This remarkable book vividly evokes the first 24 years of the author's life in Calcutta and in his ancestral village in East Bengal. First published in 1951, it rapidly established itself as a classic work combining intimate memoirs with a sweeping, highly individual survey of Indian history and culture ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Inside Out : An Extraordinary Story of Ambition, Addiction and Redemption by Greg Fisher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When Greg Fisher was a child his mother said he'd either be very successful or end up in jail. After a comfortable upbringing in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Greg Fisher did what he thought a good Jewish boy should do. He married, had a child and started making his way up the corporate ladder. But after co ...Show more
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having ta ...Show more
Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Routledge Classics
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life – introducing the people, events and influences that shaped th ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Hailed by David Attenborough, proclaimed a second Charles Darwin, John 'Charlie' Veron almost didn't become a scientist. Disheartened at school, by chance he won a scholarship to a university where he could indulge his passion for the natural world. It was scuba diving that returned him to his childhood ...Show more
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukrai ...Show more
Of All That Ends by Gunter Grass
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer G3nter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world.Suddenly, in spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, everything seems possible again- love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, ...Show more
Time to Go by Guy Kennaway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result.In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a ...Show more