My Sporting Life: Memories, Moments and Declarations by Michael Parkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Like my father before me, I believe that both the playing and watching of sport can teach us important lessons about ourselves by providing practical instruction in co-operation, tests of resolve and temper'Michael Parkinson was destined to spend his life in sport. Introduced at a young age to cricket ...Show more
Hanging By a Thread: What would it take to walk away from your dream life in Monaco and a global, multi-million-dollar business? by Erin Deering
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The stratospheric rise of Australian swimwear label Triangl was one wild ride, with retail whiz Erin Deering at its helm. This is the story of building a business from scratch, selling one bikini a day to making over US $200,000 in the same 24 hours, and the devastating toll it took upon its Co-Founder ...Show more
Chasing the Light
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1 ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LISTSo, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family by Gabrielle Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets. As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan's childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter sets in motion a literary pilgrimage that reveals long-buried family secrets. Like her mother, Stow had gro ...Show more
The Mad Sculptor - The model, the maniac, and the murder that rocked 1930s America by Harold Schechter
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
An unputdownable true crime story set in the pulp-fiction obsessed world of 1930s America. On Easter Sunday 1937, Bob Irwin - a handsome, failing sculptor with a history of depression and psychopathic episodes - commited a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady in a swish New ...Show more
A Luang Prabang Love Story by Manisamouth Ratana Koumphon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Kitty Flanagan's Complete Set of Rules by Kitty Flanagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Complete Set of Rules is Kitty Flanagan's way of helping you help others to be less annoying. A two book bundle comprising 488 Rules for Life and More Rules for Life. 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to modern problems. ...Show more
A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts - ...Show more
Baggage: Tales from a fully packed life by Alan Cumming
$24.99 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely deci ...Show more