At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Personal Memoir by Hana Yasmeen Ali
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At Home with Muhammad Aliis an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of a legend, a man admired and respected as the greatest sporting icon of our age, written by Ali's daughter Hana. As Muhammad Ali approached the end of his astonishing boxing career, he strove to embrace a new purpose and role in life ...Show more
Heart Berries - A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*New York Times Bestseller*National Bestseller*Finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction*Named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by: Chatelaine, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Huffington Post, B*tch, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Bustle, The Rumpus and Goodre ...Show more
The Bulldog Track - A Grandson's Story of an Ordinary Man's War and Survival on the Other Kokoda Trail by Peter Phelps
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival. March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found ...Show more
Made in Scotland by Billy Connolly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: 3 Biography
All roads lead home.'After my knighthood was announced,a woman from the BBC came toGlasgow to interview me. We satdown in a lovely hotel in a nice partof town, and she hit me with her firstquestion- "This must mean a lot toyou, with you coming from nothing?"I looked at her, and I laughed."I did?nae come ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (Booklist) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century" (Axios). In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the ...Show more
Tchaikovsky: the Man Revealed by John Suchet
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's life - and premature death - has long been mythologised and misunderstood. John Suchet draws back the curtain to show us the real man behind the music.A shy, emotional child, Tchaikovsky came late to composing as a career. Doubting himself at every turn and keenly wounded by c ...Show more
Seeking Justice in Cambodia by Sue Coffey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Seeking Justice in Cambodiatells the powerful stories of the original founders of Cambodian human rights organisations and the younger generation of leaders, all of whom have fought tirelessly and with great conviction to achieve justice and human rights for all Cambodians. Sue Coffey decided to compile ...Show more
Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women by Aitziber Lopez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Discover the stories behind 14 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique contribution to the history of science and technology. Car heaters...Monopoly...Disposable diapers...The dishwasher...Kevlar...Maritime flares... A ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in ...Show more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about a woman in her seventies, recently widowed, who reconnects with a man she dated in college, leading to a month's long exchange of emai ...Show more
Runaways by Shaimaa Khalil, Shelley Davidow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley’s student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land ...Show more
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism by Rachel Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Deeply touching but never sentimental, this remarkable book is more than a story of one boy and his mother. It's a thoughtful meditation on the intricate workings of the human mind and heart.' TONI JORDANWhen Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to count letterboxes; he ...Show more