Lisa: The inspiring best-selling memoir from an Australian sport icon by Lisa Curry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for six decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming prodigy who became on ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten’s mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After eventually discovering the grandparents she loved dearly ...Show more
Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy.In Getting Be ...Show more
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has ...Show more
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech titans bragged they would 'move fast and break things', Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering ...Show more
The Zookeeper's Wife - The true story of an unlikely heroine by Diane Ackerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Bestseller, 2008 Orion Book Award winner -- When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw -- and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside th ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons by Thomas Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we we ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Negroland - A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came e ...Show more
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ...Show more