Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey, Dr Bruce Perry
20.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr. Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, "what happened to you?" rather than "what's wrong with you?" Through wide-ranging, and often deeply personal conversat ...Show more
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing which investigates the little-understood science behind complex PTSD. Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
25.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy w ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
25.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class B ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Young Hawke by David Day
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoirs
From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, Australia's iconic larrikin PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds new light on the early years of a political legend. David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a journey t ...Show more