Stronger Now by Nicole McLean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On 12 October 2002, Bali was hit by the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. It claimed the lives of 202 people and left 240 injured. Nicole McLean was one of those 240. That night she lost her arm and was left fighting for her life. This is her extraordinary story. Shown through Nicole's eyes and ...Show more
Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse by Kristy Chambers
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
My quest for a career started early, when I was four years old and gave myself a haircut to see if I liked that sort of thing. I liked it plenty, but my mother did not. Much later in life, after moonlighting as a maid and enduring myriad other unsatisfying positions, I fell into nursing, the way one may ...Show more
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life by Ramona Koval
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona's Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar Wilde, Christina Stead to Grace Paley. It is about learning to ...Show more
Good Morning, Mr Sarra by Chris Sarra
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable true story of one man? fight to turn the tide of low expectations, this account follows educatorChris Sarra from his humble beginnings in a large Italian-Aboriginal family to his triumphant achievements, including becoming Queensland's Australian of the Year, the subject of ABC's Australi ...Show more
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endur ...Show more
I Confess: Revelations in Exile by Kooshyar KARIMI
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is a memoir by Sydney-based doctor and writer/translator, Kooshyar Karimi, who in 2000 managed to flee, with his family, certain torture and death which stalked him on a daily basis in his native Iran. Karimis sin was his Jewishness and the fact that he helped desperate girls and women who had been ...Show more
The Man from Coolibah by Milton Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The youngest in a family of five, Milton Jones grew up on large properties in the outback. His father was a farm manager and so his early life was a world away from that of city kids. Milton left school in Queensland in his mid teens and moved back to the Northern Territory. Mustering was in his blood a ...Show more
Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
One of the great revelations of William Shawcross's official biography was the Queen Mother's private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ...brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Now, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal ...Show more
Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll by Charlotte Dawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Air Kiss and Tell - Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll is a book that shows us that things that are sparkly, glamorous and smooth on the outside can often be a little dark, awkward and unexpectedly windy on the inside. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, Charlotte Dawson recalls many of the more noteworthy st ...Show more
January First by Michael Schofield
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A harrowing memoir from the father of a seven-year-old girl, January First is the desperate story of Michael's mission to find out what is wrong with his highly intelligent daughter. Right from when she was a newborn, January has kept her parents on their toes: as a baby she slept for only 20 minutes at ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane (Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the acclaimed author of "The Wild Places," an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its wat ...Show more
Boo!: The Underdog With a Heart of Gold by Lisa Edwards
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Boo is an unlikely hero. The runt of his litter, class dunce in puppy training, clumsy and short-sighted - the odds are stacked against him. But there's more to little Boo than meets the eye: he radiates love and empathy. Working as a therapy dog alongside owner Lisa, he has been a true miracle worker, ...Show more