Anti Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Brutal, brave, hilarious - a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you. Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while ...Show more
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to t ...Show more
William S. Burroughs - A Life by Barry Miles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical politica ...Show more
Gilliamesque - A Pre-Posthumous Memoir (HB) by Terry Gilliam
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of '60s and '70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first t ...Show more
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders - the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, h ...Show more
Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror by John Cantwell; Greg Bearup
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
John Cantwell, Queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried Iraqi troops alive. He served in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car bomb does to a crowded mark ...Show more
Under the Microscope by Earl Owen
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Under the Microscope is the story of an extraordinary man, his many life-changing inventions, and his exceptional life and special friendships. Born into a family of doctors u on the paternal and maternal sides - with a birth defect that no one knew how to treat, Earl Owen was given a dose of radiation ...Show more
Making Soapies in Kabul by Trudi-Ann Tierney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly popular soapie. Trudi's staff are hugely inexperienced. They include Habib, the Pashto poet who wants to ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$16.99 AUD
Category: General
A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book takes us into the mind of a boy with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, author of the global phenomenon, Cloud Atlas, and transla ...Show more
Tom Petty: Rock 'n' Roll Guardian by Andrea M. Rotondo
$24.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Tom Petty may be one of rock'n'roll's preeminent artists today - having sold more than 60-million records - but his rise to superstardom was never a foregone conclusion. His band Mudcrutch was a household name in his hometown of Gainesville, Florida, in the mid-1970s, but the band self-destructed just m ...Show more
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been from the outside looking in; Jay Barbree is the only person whom Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the Armstrong family, Jay Barbree has written th ...Show more
Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood; Ian Kelly
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true living legend. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne We ...Show more