The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond by Prudence Wheelwright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Nurse and midwife Prue Wheelwright has worked in the most remote parts of Australia and around the world. In isolated, far-flung locations and on dangerous frontlines, this passionate and dedicated nurse has put her heart, and often her safety, on the line, day after day, year after year. Prue shares al ...Show more
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
"How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure themselves against a set normal and find themselves lacking? When did I know that I was plump, and then fat? Fat child, self-denying adolescent, hungry young woman; a body now burgeoning uncontrolled into m ...Show more
A Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$27.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie ...Show more
Not Like Other Dads by Sean Szeps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A funny, fearlessly frank and inspiring memoir about raising kids when the old rules don't apply.Sean had wanted to be a mum since the age of four, when he fell in love with Mrs Potts, the motherly teapot in Beauty and the Beast. But there was just one problem: he was not, in fact, a woman.When he was s ...Show more
Daring to Fly: The TV star on facing fear and finding joy on a deadline by Lisa Millar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'The utterly inspirational story behind one of our country's most superb journalists. To have played even the tiniest of roles in helping to ignite Lisa's early fire for journalism gives me more joy than she will ever know.'LISA WILKINSON Lisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things d ...Show more
Revolution: Ange Postecoglou: Close Up on Australia's Greatest Ever Football Manager by John Greechan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
When Ange Postecoglou checked-in at Celtic Park he faced a momentous task as he sought to right the wrongs of a season to forget and restore the Hoops to the top of the Premier Division. Would a track record in Australian and Japanese football transfer to the unique landscape of the Scottish game? Woul ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$42.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for braver ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the USA, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The best selling memoir, now in paperback!
A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/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
Ryan's Luck - A Life of Peter Ryan MM by John Tidey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Peter Allen Ryan (1923-2015) was a talented, brave and complex man; in some quarters an Australian institution. As a 19-year-old soldier in World War Two he won the Military Medal and was Mentioned in Dispatches. Fear Drive My Feet, the book he wrote when he returned home from New Guinea, is recognised ...Show more