Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
Brian Johnson - The Lives of Brian - A memoir by Brian Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own inimitable voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC's legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock 'n'roll history. For o ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Tell Me Again: A Memoir by Amy Thunig
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It's a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, w ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ by Giulia Enders
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: good
The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works. In Gut, Giulia Enders shows that rather than the utilitarian and - let's be honest - somewhat embarrassing body part we imagine it to be, ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
Educated: The international bestselling memoir by Tara Westover
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more