Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia's first MasterChef by Julie Goodwin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | 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
Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpiec ...Show more
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022 by Robert Hardman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
<b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Book of the Year <i>Queen Of Our Times</i> is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain’s leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes an epilogue reflecting upon Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubile ...Show more
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story ...Show more
Becoming Beatrix - The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit by Amy M. O'Quinn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Beatrix Potter forged her own creative path to independence, fame, and financial success.Peter Rabbit, Hunca Munca, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck--many readers are familiar with the animal characters created by British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. But she was so much m ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$59.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more