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Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is th ...Show more
Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & 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
Greenlights (PB) by Matthew McConaughey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clue ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$55.00 AUD
$65.00 (15% off)
Category: Political | 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
Truths From an Unreliable Witness by Fiona O'Loughlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir from one of Australia's most loved comedians shows us that no matter how far down you get, there is always a way back. Fiona O'Loughlin was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard ... unless there were guests in the house. Then she ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
Unseen by Jacinta Parsons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn’t go away. Doctors couldn’t explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually t ...Show more
Untwisted: The Story of My Life by Paul Jennings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors. Sometimes, rather than making you laugh or cry out in surprise, a story will instead leave you wondering about human fragility. In the telling of his own tale, childr ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more
Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth Von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being happy.' Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early 20th century's most famous - and forgotten -authors. Born in Sydney in the mid 1800s, she went on to write many internationally bestselling novels, marry a ...Show more
Belief (HB) by Marlion Pickett; Dave Warner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Football/Rugby
From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett’s extraordinary story. It’s the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The 100,000 strong crowd leaps to its feet and roars as Marlion Pickett sends the ball soaring through the goalposts for his first e ...Show more