A Very Chequered Career by Garry Maher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Detective Sergeant Owen Maloney is a highly regarded veteran police officer. Together with his reputation as an intelligent, 'iron fist in a velvet glove' detective, his steely determination, and keen analytical mind, Detective Maloney was 'going places' career wise.During the latter part of his 25-year ...Show more
Beyond the Mirage - An Autobiography by Arthur Upfield
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them... Perhaps it was the sense of freedom, both physically and spiritually, the knowledge that should I want to look beyond the sandhills and peer beyond the mirage, there was nothing but my two legs and a water bag to prevent me... As thou ...Show more
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
$42.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A New York Times Notable Book -This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable.- --New York Times -Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class.---Washington Post Book W ...Show more
Island Home - a landscape memoir by Tim Winton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is ...Show more
Me You A Diary by Dawn French
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Dawn French has written a new book for 2017! It's INTERACTIVE - the reader and Dawn will spend a year together travelling through the days, the months and the seasons of the year to make SENSE of it. And have some fun along the way . . .
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
"Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Austr ...Show more
Hack in a Flak Jacket by Peter Stefanovic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
For almost ten years Peter Stefanovic was Channel 9's foreign correspondent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During that time he witnessed more than his fair share of death and destruction - all while putting his own personal safety very much in the firing line. This is his memoir of those experie ...Show more
The Boy Who Wouldn't Die by David Nyuol Vincent, Carol Nader
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The inspiring story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars, and 15 years in camps to find a new life in Australia David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sis ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more
Behind the Lens by David Suchet
$55.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short, stocky, slightly overweight, deep of voice, passionate, dark haired, olive skinned, hardly your typical Englishman. What chance did I have, going into the world of British theatre? David Suchet has been a stalw ...Show more
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider by Mohammad Chowdhury
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A jo ...Show more