Avalanche by Julia Leigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
At the age of 38 acclaimed novelist Julia Leigh made her first visit to the IVF clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly journey of nightly injections, blood tests, surgeries and rituals. Writing in the immediate aftermath of her decision to stop treatment, Leigh lays bare the truths of her ex ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Bob Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Most political memoirs are boring.Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curricul ...Show more
The Children's Block: Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor by Otto B Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu ...Show more
Lionheart: Journey of the Human Spirit by Jesse Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The story of Jesse Martin who, at the age of 18, was the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world. A young man who didn't know the meaning of impossible.
Reservoir Dad by Clint Greagen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy...' Best Australian Blog 2013 judge Kerri Sackville sums up the feelings of the legions of fans of Reservoir Dad, aka Clint Greagen, a stay-at-home dad who t ...Show more
12 Rules for Living a Better Life by Reverend Bill Crews
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A straight-talking, uplifting and inspiring guide to living a better life and becoming a better human being - through compassion, tolerance, acceptance and love - from one our very best, most authentic and genuine people, the Reverend Bill Crews. He's been named one of Australia's 100 most influential p ...Show more
The Return by Hisham Matar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
An extraordinary memoir of a son's search for his father and the return to a homeland he never thought he'd see again Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was finally ...Show more
Pushing the Limits by Kurt Fearnley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself on, screaming, 'Who are you? Who are you?? And each time the answer that kept bouncing around in my mind was just- 'I am someone who will never stop. Someone who will never give up. Ever.?When Kurt Fearnley was a kid, he would leave his wheelch ...Show more
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was not to be, thanks to her eccentric taxidermist father and a truly bizarre family life. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humour in the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend ne ...Show more
Mr Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A moving true story of the unlikely friendship between two people who had nothing and ultimately everything in common. Carol Wall was at a crossroads. Her children had flown the nest, her beloved parents were ageing and she had overcome a serious illness. A neglected garden should have been the least of ...Show more
A Man In Love (#2 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$19.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
"'Intense and vital... Ceaselessly compelling... Superb' James Wood, New Yorker/b>his is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of fami ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more