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How I Clawed My Way to the Middle by John Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!' I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke - had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of hig ...Show more
Paul Kelly: the Man, the Music & the Life in Between by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Renowned music journalist Stuart Coupe examines the life of an Australian music icon - honest, revealing and a must-read for Paul Kelly fans and music lovers alike. He's been called Australia's Bob Dylan and likened to Springsteen and Neil Young, but Paul Kelly stands alone as a chronicler of his and ou ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsi ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more
The Dreamer: An Autobiography by Cliff Richard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
Published to coincide with his 80th birthday, a tour and another new album, national treasure Sir Cliff Richard has emerged stronger than ever after devastating false accusations threatened to ruin his life. As he celebrates 60 years in music, he tells his incredible story in his first, full autobiograp ...Show more
Michael Buble: The Biography by Juliet Peel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Michael Buble is an international singing sensation. Since his debut in 2003, he has sold 18 million albums, won numerous awards (including a Grammy), reached the top 10 in the UK charts with his first album, 'Michael Buble', and the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album charts for the same CD. His second a ...Show more
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The biography of the extraordinary career of Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana, front man of the Foo Fighters, based on original and exclusive interviews ("A rich history"--New York Times Book Review)This Is a Call, the first in-depth, definitive biography of Dave Grohl, tells the epic story of a singular ...Show more
Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Winner, Book of the Year and Biography of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016 Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoningis the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia''s most beloved performers, tells her story. In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describe ...Show more
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ...Show more
Ian McKellen: The Biography by Garry O'Connor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Few actors achieve in their lifetime what Sir Ian McKellen has. A repertoire of vast commercial success coupled with critically acclaimed and authoritative Shakespearian roles. A man whose achievements inspire both admiration and affection. McKellen has been feted and admired in every country across the ...Show more
Worse Things Happen at Sea: Tales of Life, Love, Family and the Everyday Beauty in Between by William McInnes & Sarah Watt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In William's first book A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA does the same for family life in 2000s; written by William and Sarah in a way that many Australians can relate to and enjoy. This book celebrates the ...Show more