A Bold Life by Kerri-Anne Kennerley
12.99 AUD
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
"Kerri-Anne Kennerley is Australia's queen of television. But behind the glamour of a public life is a private woman. And a survivor. A Bold Life is the tale of a Sandgate girl who chased her dream of being a cabaret star to New York, only to find herself stranded in a violent marriage to a dangerous dr ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
6.99 AUD
22.99 (69% off)
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''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than ...Show more
A Passion for Living: The Amazing Story of a Boy Who Makes Every Day Matter by Alexander Stobbs
6.99 AUD
22.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
Alex Stobbs is determined to make every day count. Despite suffering from cystic fibrosis and enduring a gruelling regime of drugs and treatment, he has already achieved more in his nineteen years than many do in a lifetime. A musical prodigy, he was the subject of the Bafta-nominated documentary, A Boy ...Show more
A Version of Reason by Rob Jovanovic
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
The disappearance of Richey Edwards, troubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers, is one of rock and roll's great unresolved mysteries. His Vauxhall Cavalier was found abandoned in a service station car park near the Severn Bridge, a notorious suicide spot, in February 1995, a fortnight after Edw ...Show more
About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully by Irma Kurtz
6.99 AUD
27.99 (75% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
Something in our world is changing. In ten years time 60% of us will be over 55. The retirement age is likely to move up to 70; modern medicine ensures that most of us will live well in to our 80s and most of us will choose to do some work, paid or voluntary, while we are still physically able. Yet olde ...Show more
Accidental Weatherman by Sam Mac
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
The Accidental Weatherman is the story of what happens when a hilarious Adelaide boy who knows nothing about meteorology scores the coveted weatherman gig on the highest rating breakfast TV show in Australia.As the Sunrise weatherman, Sam Mac has bungee jumped, swum with sharks, got his cat on the cover ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
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Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
Au Revoir by Mary Moody
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
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Born in 1950, Mary Moody is part of a generation of women who Had It All. At 50, her life was full with a fulfilling career, a husband, children and grandchildren. But the one thing missing was time for herself, so for six months she left her work, family and friends and went to live on her own in the s ...Show more
Beneath the Fig Leaves by Olympia Panagiotopoulos
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
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In 1955, in a village in Greece that was marred by war and poverty, Giannoula and Fotios Panagiotopoulos dreamed of providing a better life for their children. Australia, it was rumoured, was a land of opportunity where hard work brought reward. Leaving behind family and friends, they set off to make a ...Show more
Broken by Lisa Jones
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Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment. She was committed to a long-term relationship, building a career, and searching for something she could not name. At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to tran ...Show more
Brutally Honest by Melanie Brown; Louise Gannon
6.99 AUD
29.99 (76% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl - and the truth behind the headlines As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a.k.a Scary Spice, has been an international star since her twenties. Brutally Honest is an exposé of the s ...Show more
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre by Liao Yiwu
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
A "memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square" (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time" (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written ...Show more