I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it by Alex Noble
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn’t about the hand you’re dealt, but how you choose to play it. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his l ...Show more
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia by Andra Putnis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled ...Show more
For Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying – and Flying by Ailsa Piper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels, for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird. After I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid-air. It looks like pure pleasure, suspended, its wings ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pu ...Show more
Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'How strange to be the observed and not the observer.' Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly registered psychologist when she gives birth to her first child - and very quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Out of fear and shame, she keeps her delusions and hallucinatio ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
Two Mums and a Dad by TOBY ROBERTS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours wondering if this mob had mista ...Show more
Gold Digger: Chasing the mother lode in a man's world by Tyler Mahoney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"If you haven't seen a Discovery Channel gold-hunting show, you might picture a gold prospector as a relic of the Wild West: a TNT-toting, bearded old man wildly swinging a pick on the hunt for nuggets, guided by old maps, superstition, legends and instinct. It's still predominantly a man's world, and s ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more
All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot: Self Image, Beauty Ideals and Desirability by Lucinda Froomes Price
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Beloved comedian, podcaster and commentator Price's debut book explores obsession and self-image, and how while striving to be hot feels natural, particularly in our culture, it is dangerous, homogenous, and informed by patriarchy. Anchored in her own personal experience, All I Ever Wanted Is to Be Hot ...Show more
I Want To Die but I Still Want To Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations With My Psychiatrist by Baek Sehee
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Category: Biography
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would rea ...Show more