No Matter Our Wreckage: A Memoir about Grooming, Betrayal, Trauma and Love by Gemma Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A ground-breaking, uncompromising and unflinching memoir about grooming, intergenerational trauma, grief and love. My mother knew I was abused as a child. She had read letters sent from my abuser to me…But she never spoke to me about them, or what they described. And she never intervened to stop the ab ...Show more
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The New York Times bestselling memoir a girl who learns to live - and then escape - an invisible lifeIn China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.'Qian is seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New Yor ...Show more
The Instant by Amy Liptrot
$39.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The new book from the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of The Outrun - on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital age 'I loved this book' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'Utterly absorbing' Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden Wishing to leave behind the qu ...Show more
NANCE GRANT A LIFE OF CURTAIN CALLS by Nance Grant
$65.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Nance Grant's world has been a rich tapestry of musical and operatic performances, in the company of many great singers, producers, musicians and conductors, renowned both in Australia and internationally. Nance Grant: A life of curtain calls breathes life into this world, taking us behind the curtain a ...Show more
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022 by Robert Hardman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
<b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Book of the Year <i>Queen Of Our Times</i> is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain’s leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes an epilogue reflecting upon Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubile ...Show more
The Millionaire Castaway by David Glasheen with Neil Bramwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Dave Glasheen’s life began spiralling out of control after he lost his family’s vast fortune in the stock market crash of 1987. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the north-east ...Show more
Rocky Road: The Incredible True Story of the Fractured Family Behind the Darrell Lea Chocolate Empire by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'The answer to our success was family.' In 1935, the Australian family confectionery company, Darrell Lea, was a sensation. Delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more were displayed colourfully and plentifully in line with the family's motto, 'Stack 'em high, watch 'em fly'. It was at this ...Show more
The Face Pressed Against a Window - A Memoir by Tim Waterstone
$39.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstones empire that started with one bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowe ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$9.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of de ...Show more
Good Day, Good Night by Margaret Wise Brown; Loren Long (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
★ An Amazon Best Book of 2017 A never-before-published picture book from Margaret Wise Brown, the bestselling author of Goodnight Moon, brought to life by Loren Long, #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of President Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing. When the sun comes up and the day begins, the littl ...Show more
Second Best by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
History is always written by the winners and about the winners. But what about the men and women of the past who reached for gold but grasped only morale-sapping silver? Australia’s second-best comedy historian Ben Pobjie celebrates the fascinating stories of those pipped at the post of greatness – f ...Show more
Karma: The definitive autobiography by Boy George
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George. Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club, since its inception in 1981.Boy George has led a colo ...Show more