Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admir ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
Second Chance: The heartwarming true story of a neglected horse who became a Mounted Police hero by Diana Thurgood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
A life-affirming true story of kindness, courage and one horse's extraordinary journey from a derelict paddock to the esteemed stables of the Mounted Police. On a hot summer's day in Northern New South Wales, Mounted Police officer Tiffany spotted an advertisement for a horse in the local paper - a Cly ...Show more
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. With the spirit of reflection and empathy she's known for, ...Show more
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Henry Winkler, launched into prominence by his role as 'The Fonz' in the beloved TV series "Happy Days", has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny and widely regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's ju ...Show more
Alan Joyce and Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon by Peter Harbison; Derek Sadubin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
Alan Joyce & Qantas - The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon is the fascinating, unauthorised story of Alan Joyce's meteoric rise and turbulent 15-year tenure as the CEO of Qantas. The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contains all the ingredients of a corporate ...Show more
Lies My Mirror Told Me: A Frank, Funny, Fearless Memoir by Wendy Harmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, Lies My Mirror Told Me. 'I've always believed where there's a chance, you have to take it . . . or invent it.' Wendy Harmer has had an extraordinary life. From being born with a severe facial deformity, t ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General)
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography (General) | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls by Simone Amelia Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a sch ...Show more