A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from Iraq. King, forty-eight, was killed on 14 October, 2006. His son, Jordan, was six months old, and they had spent only two weeks together. A Journal for Jordan ...Show more
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years, this is a biographical trip told through sport, families and the author's own experiences. He weaves in and around the events that have held a fascination for Australia. Some of these events would be considered momentous, some s ...Show more
Catherine's Gift by John Little
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dr Catherine Hamlin has been described as a living saint and one of our greatest Australians. Since 1959 she has lived and worked in Ethiopia, helping the victims of fistulas - devastating injuries caused by obstructed labour in childbirth, which condemn women to a lifetime of incapacity and degradation ...Show more
CONSIDER YOUR VERDICT by ETTRIDGE DAVID
$29.92 AUD
Category: Biography
The workplace can be tricky - whether you're a 'pollie' or a 'brickie'. Learning the skills necessary for your chosen career is just the beginning. Corporate Tricks will give you the edge to survive.
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason.
I PEED ON FELLINI : RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFE IN FILM - SIGNED by DAVID STRATTON
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
I PEED ON FELLINI, the long-awaited memoir from legendary film critic David Stratton, is an honest, funny and thoroughly entertaining journey through a remarkable life in film. Passionate since boyhood about the cinema, Stratton has reviewed thousands of movies, directed and adjudicated at international ...Show more
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER "As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find." --from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out ...Show more
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
" Frank, enraging and captivating. The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall ...Show more
Sleeping with the Dead by Cunningham, Marko
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"Today I raced through the streets of Bangkok in my rescue vehicle, extracted an injured man from a truck at the port, then took him to hospital. Shortly after, in another area, I donned a fire suit and breathing apparatus and walked into a flaming building looking for trapped people and ended up rescui ...Show more
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage dur ...Show more