Vera - My Story by Vera Wasowski; Robert Hillman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera's survival. Wi ...Show more
CJ: The Autobiography of CJ de Mooi: My Journey from the Streets to the Screen by C. J. de Mooi
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Best known as an actor and one of the BBC's Eggheads, few people would guess at the horrific early years CJ de Mooi endured. As a teenager, CJ fled from his childhood home to escape prolonged child abuse, hatred and violence, and consequently slept rough for three years. He sank to - and almost didn't s ...Show more
Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
$27.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unab ...Show more
Your Vigour for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters, 1958-1977 by R Crumb
$28.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
I feel that my work is but a feeble expression of something that in itself is vague and doubtful Sometimes when I probe myself I find that my intentions in art aren't as sincere as they should be I realize that I m fairly good at drawing, but you see that s only because I've done so much of it, and it s ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Bob Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Most political memoirs are boring.Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curricul ...Show more
Out of This Century - Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story of her life and loves: her stormy relationships with such men as Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock, and her discovery of new artists. Kno ...Show more
The Children's Block: Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor by Otto B Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu ...Show more
Pushing the Limits by Kurt Fearnley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself on, screaming, 'Who are you? Who are you?? And each time the answer that kept bouncing around in my mind was just- 'I am someone who will never stop. Someone who will never give up. Ever.?When Kurt Fearnley was a kid, he would leave his wheelch ...Show more
12 Rules for Living a Better Life by Reverend Bill Crews
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A straight-talking, uplifting and inspiring guide to living a better life and becoming a better human being - through compassion, tolerance, acceptance and love - from one our very best, most authentic and genuine people, the Reverend Bill Crews. He's been named one of Australia's 100 most influential p ...Show more
Lionheart: Journey of the Human Spirit by Jesse Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The story of Jesse Martin who, at the age of 18, was the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world. A young man who didn't know the meaning of impossible.
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for commun ...Show more