Barefoot in the Bindis by Angela Wales
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Sheep Farming 1950's Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm i ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$27.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Guy Griffiths - The Life and Times of an Australian Admiral by Peter Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
In his long career in the Royal Australian Navy, Guy Griffiths participated in its emergence from Depression-era stricture, pre-World War II, to its reinvention in the 1950s and 60s as a capable middle-power force centred on aircraft carriers in the missile age. In this time, he personally experienced t ...Show more
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier by Diana Preston, Michael Preston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
"William Dampier, (1651 -1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. mong many extraordinary achievements Dampier mapped the winds and ...Show more
The Criminal Class: Memoir of a Prison Teacher by Paul A. MacNamara
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
“Teaching in the jail system is a surreal experience, a whole other existence. In this bizarreness you encounter things that make you shake your head, shake your fist, cry your heart out, laugh your head off and blow your mind. And I felt compelled to write it down; to capture its un-realness. Hopefully ...Show more
Empire of Pain -The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the w ...Show more
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, her la ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further conversations with my psychiatrist by Baek Sehee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/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 reac ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/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 pub ...Show more
Every Contact Leaves a Trace: My Life as a Crime Scenes Investigator by Jo Ward
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Every Contact Leaves a Trace is a gripping look at crime scenes - dead bodies, blood spatter, murder weapons - and how a forensics specialist keeps it together as she does her job. Enter the fascinating world of crime scene investigation with this chilling memoir from Jo Ward of BBC's Forensics - the Re ...Show more
Father, Son and Other Animals by Zoë Sadokierski (Illustrator); James Bradley (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
I Have Been Buried under Years of Dust - A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer; Emily Grodin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who'd been trapped inside for more than two decades."I have been buried under years of dust and now I ha ...Show more