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Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
From the rock legend turned master storyteller, this collection of non-fiction short stories is vintage Jimmy. Stories of adventure, misadventure, love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, K ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$55.00 AUD
$65.00 (15% off)
Category: Biography or Memoir | Reading Level: Easy
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Heartsick by Jessie Stephens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
When Jessie Stephens went through a difficult breakup, she started to look for books or stories that would reflect her experience and perhaps give her some hope for the future. There were plenty of guide books in the '101 tips to cure a broken heart' vein, but what Jessie wanted were stories. She wanted ...Show more
Heroes Next Door by Johnson, Samuel & Hinton, Hilde
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
From bestselling authors Samuel Johnson and Hilde Hinton comes a moving, funny, irreverent, inspiring and big-hearted book that shows us all that resilience and kindness are what make the difference, and that you don't have to travel far to find good people ... often they are right next door. When Samu ...Show more
Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth by Jeff Maynard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced h ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
A Question of Colour - My Journey to Belonging by Patricia Lees; Adam C. Lees (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Depart ...Show more
Atlantis - A Journey in Search of Beauty by Carlo Piano; Renzo Piano; Will Schutt (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
Renowned architect Renzo Piano (the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, Potsdamer Platz, Cite Internationale, New York Times Building, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, etc.) and his son Carlo, a well-regarded journalist, set sail from Genoa one late Summer day to search for Atlantis, the perf ...Show more
Australian Women Pilots: Amazing True Stories of Women in the Air by Kathy Mexted
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
There's a lot of aeroplanes and aviators down in that water. Thank God I'm not one of them.From pioneering and outback flights to delivering Spitfires or tackling the jungles of New Guinea, Australian Women Pilots tells of ten Australians with extraordinary stories.Women have been flying since the early ...Show more
Banks by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery - the extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trump ...Show more
Battling the Blues by Darius Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir
Darius Boyd is an NRL champion. This raw, honest and inspiring memoir takes us into the heart of his footy and private life and reveals his fight to conquer his demons and live a better life. 'A legend of the game' - Anthony Seibold'He's a player that never lets his team down' - ...Show more
Biographic Beethoven by Marcus Weeks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography or Memoir | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer, a musical prodigy whose Symphony No. 5 is recognizable the world over from its opening four notes. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was almost completely deaf for nearly half his life; that his father would often lie ...Show more