The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I am from a family of strong women.' Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father. Five months pregnant at the time, her own perception of how she wanted to mother (and how she had been mothered) was shaped by this devas ...Show more
Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure by Alex Honnold, David Roberts
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alex Honnold is one of the world's best 'free solo' climbers, he scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. Exhilarating, brilliant and dangerous, there is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but also impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, on ...Show more
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. ...Show more
Dream Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance – the Allotment Horse who Became a Champion by Janet Vokes
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Category: Biography
Janet Vokes was working behind the bar in her local working men's club in the small Welsh mining community of Cefn Fforest when she fixed upon the idea of breeding a racehorse. She'd always loved animals, having dabbled in showing whippets and racing pigeons, and her husband Brian used to be a rag and b ...Show more
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization, and reason.
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
Bypass: The Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
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Category: Biography
"All the dirt on the Hume Highway" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the great roads of the world, it is longer than it is wide. Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the H ...Show more
Robin: The Definitive Biography of Robin Williams by Dave Itzkoff
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'This well-written page-turner is the definitive biography of the genius of Robin Williams, whose life redefines the highs and lows of the American dream' Steve Martin From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Wil ...Show more
The Bad Room by Jade Kelly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her staggering true story. 'This must be what prison is like,' I thought as another hour crawled by. In fact, prison would be better ... at least you knew your s ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
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Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writi ...Show more
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly LVO
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's Personal Advisor, ...Show more
An Awesome Ride by Andrew Clarke; Cameron Smith; Cameron Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Hi guys. I have some bad news I want to tell you all.' So said seventeen-year-old Shaun Miller on YouTube in April 2012, shortly after receiving a devastating diagnosis about his heart condition. The clip has now been viewed millions of times. In 1994, when Cameron Miller found out he was going to be a ...Show more