The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Praise for Corey White's stand-up- 'Captivating' Tom Gleeson 'It's a spiritually enriching show. Whitey has safer hands than Gilchrist circa 2003 ... Strap in for this one, it's a harrowing little number that leaves you in a good mood, quite a feat.' Herald Sun 'Corey White runs the full gamut of human ...Show more
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly LVO
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
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
The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist by Donald Horne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies — The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) — in one volume. Describing his formative years as he strays far from home, i ...Show more
Outback Songman: My Life by Ted Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The life of one of Australia's great raconteurs and bush musicians, told in his own words.
Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good by Aminata Conteh-Biger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'Rising Heart will never leave you; searing, powerful, disturbing, hopeful.' The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. In 1999, Sierra Leone teenager Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped from her father's ar ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven by John Doyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? An Australian icon, a raconteur, an athlete of unsurpassable - and some may say improbable - sporting feats. Whether it was riding Rooting King to another Melbourne Cup victory, commentating the Olympics or hobnobbing with the country's upper crust, Rampaging Roy Slaven has ...Show more
How Stella Learned to Talk by Christina Hunger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The groundbreaking story of the world's first talking dog, the indispensable dog book for the new decade. An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who taught her dog, Stella, to communicate usi ...Show more
Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: Thai Cave Rescue by John Volanthen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
John Volanthen is a legendary British cave-diver and one of the two-man team who discovered and rescued the Wild Boars soccer team from the sunken cave in Tham Luang, Thailand. Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives is the deeply revealing and nail-biting account of that incredible rescue.
Time to Go by Guy Kennaway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result.In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a ...Show more
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Hailed by David Attenborough, proclaimed a second Charles Darwin, John 'Charlie' Veron almost didn't become a scientist. Disheartened at school, by chance he won a scholarship to a university where he could indulge his passion for the natural world. It was scuba diving that returned him to his childhood ...Show more
Island Home by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more