The Girl Who Lived by Susan Berg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At fifteen, Susan Berg was on a boat trip with her parents and brother when their vessel began to sink. Desperate to find help, she swam ahead, struggling through darkness and rough sea. After nearly four hours, Susan, exhausted and barely able to walk, finally made it ashore. Her family did not. Wracke ...Show more
Elle by Elle Macpherson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Stories, memories and life lessons from an Australian icon I have learned that love is what really matters… My life experiences brought about that discovery. I deeply wish that you learn unconditional love, firstly of yourself, then of others, then of life itself. It’s your true nature. In the dazzlin ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
$39.99 AUD
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Category: Biography
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
The Afterlife Confessional by Bill Edgar
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heartbreaking and hilarious, outrageous and wise, The Afterlife Confessional is Bill Edgar's fascinating account of the things he's witnessed and learned as the Coffin Confessor - the bizarre and beautiful ways we live and love, the finality of death and the power of legacy, and how letting go can somet ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
A Safe Arrival by Sonja Southwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In A Safe Arrival, author Sonja Southwell tells the unforgettable story of her parentsRyer and Johanna van Kralingenattending particularly to the period of their service as Salvation Army officers in Holland and in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) from the 1930s through to the 1950s. It inclu ...Show more
My Father's Suitcase by MARY GARDEN
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a ...Show more
Hope by Rosie Batty
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as pr ...Show more
With What I Have Left: People say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. For Melissa James, talking to herself didn’t make her mad. It saved her life. by Meliisa A. James, Jo Tuscano
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"mother taught her daughter certain lessons. ‘You’re no good. You’ll never amount to anything. You’re hopeless. What did I do to deserve this child?’ Melissa thought her family was normal and took all her mother’s comments on board. She believed she was no good and was a burden to her mother, father and ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis by J. D. Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Am ...Show more
Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape by Seana Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health ...Show more