Nile Wilson - My Story by Nile Wilson
$44.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
The down-to-earth Olympic medalist tells the story of the pressures and mental health struggles behind his successful gymnastic career. Nile Wilson is known to many as the gymnast who won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and England's most successful gymnast ever at a Commo ...Show more
Teacher, Teacher: Stories of inspirational educators by DALEY, MEGAN
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An anthology about the power of teachers and their capacity to shape lives, edited by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley of Children's Book Daily and the Your Kid's Next Read podcast. Featuring contributions from Jessie Tu,Tony Birch,Rick Morton,Jacqueline Harvey + many more. The power of an ...Show more
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Ypi Lea
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEARCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime. One of the nonfiction titles of the y ...Show more
Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss ...Show more
The Seventh Circle: A Former Australian Soldier's Extraordinary Story of Surviving Seven Years in Afghanistan's Most Notorious Prison by Rob Langdon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the tradition of Midnight Express, The Damage Done, Marching Powder and Hotel Kerobokan comes an extraordinary story of Australian resilience and survival in Afghanistan's notorious Pol-e-Charkhi prison, a place that's been described as 'the world's worst place to be a westerner'.
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Peter Swanson is back - with a chilling and fiendish puzzle of novel, the crime novel everyone will be talking about... 'Deliciously ingenious.' -Daily Mail 'Keeps you guessing right to the end.' - PETER MAY 'Smartly entertaining.' -Washington Post 'So beautifully written, so gripping, so perfect.' - SO ...Show more
Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
$23.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you? A phenomenal memoir - the first of its kind - Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave ...Show more
Fatherhood: Stories about being a dad by William McInnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
William McInnes, one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart. Fatherhood is about family, about memories of his father and the memories he's creating as a dad himself, with his own son and daughter. Warm, witty and nostalgic, these tales are ...Show more
Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Dr Eben Alexander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Bestseller -- Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under ex ...Show more