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A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bet ...Show more
Love Clancy: A Dog's Letters Home, Edited and Debated by Richard Glover by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my c ...Show more
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As a therapist, Lori knows a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss, and how change and loss travel together. She know how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for her frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role she might have in the existential play called My Incredi ...Show more
Stories of Hope by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson explores the central disorder of modern existence: disconnection from ourselves, disconnection from community, disconnection from the preciousness of life on this planet This One Wild and Precious Life is a journey of the soul, a case for why we need to ...Show more
A Repurposed Life by Ronni Kahn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'From the founder of OzHarvest, an ebullient, generous memoir with an exhilarating message.' ANNABEL CRABB 'Brimming with energy, altruism and refreshing candour' QUENTIN BRYCE 'The inspiring story of a woman with a big heart who dared to make a difference. This is a must-read book. I couldn't put it ...Show more
Rolling with the Punchlines by Urzila Carlson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Updated with new chapters and written with her trademark deadpan humour, Urzila's memoir is full of great stories. Urzila's accidental beginning in stand-up has led to an incredibly successful career in comedy, with regular gigs on Channel 10's Have you Been Paying Attention? in Australia, and 7 Day ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective gl ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women's Stories Throughout History by Katerina Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Katerina Bryant suddenly began experiencing chronic seizures, she was plunged into a foreign world of doctors and psychiatrists, who understood her condition as little as she did. Reacting the only way she knew how, she immersed herself in books, reading her way through her own complicated diagnosi ...Show more