The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings by Emma Carey
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundreds of thousands online to live life to the fullest and remind us that if we can, we must. Ther ...Show more
The Girl Who Touched The Stars by Bonnie Hancock
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
A gripping account of the record-breaking circumnavigation by iron woman Bonnie Hancock. It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. 254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest ever ...Show more
The Messiah's Bride by Megan Norris
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
Eleven-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs came to Australia looking for paradise -and found herself trapped in the marriage from Hell.In 1994, Stefanie Hinrichs dreamed of owning a horse, leaving school and marrying Keanu Reeves. But God had other plans for the teenager. Her family belonged to a controversial D ...Show more
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Sharma here provides a spiritual fable about fulfilling your dreams and reaching your destiny.
The Sister -The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murd ...Show more
The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
The World of Mab Grimwade by Thea Gardiner
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
An exquisitely packaged hardback revealing the untold story of an influential Australian philanthropist. Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887-1973), or 'Mab' to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to the a ...Show more
The Worlds and Work of Clarice Beckett by Edith M. Ziegler
49.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
Clarice Beckett was one of Australia's most important early Modernist painters, excelling in portraiture, still-life and landscape. The discovery of a trove of her artworks has led to her remarkable talent and evocative art being recognised afresh and greatly admired. Clarice Beckett was self-effacing ...Show more
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL by Miriam Margolyes
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
75.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women by Maggie Kirkman
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse ...Show more