Dear Girls - Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mum comics on stage but ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Tie-In) by Jon Krakauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Jon Krakauer's investigation into ...Show more
Australia's Trail-Blazing First Novelist: John Lang by Sean Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Writer, journalist, barrister, larrikin'Who was the first Australian novelist?John Lang, born in a Parramatta pub in 1816 with the convict 'stain' upon him, was a singular character. The first native-born person to have a novel published, he was also a newspaperman, a classical scholar and translator, ...Show more
What Have We Here: Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
WHAT HAVE WE HERE? follows Billy Dee Williams from his childhood growing up in Harlem to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood before landing the role in George Lucas' space opera that would win him everlasting fame.Over a 60-year career spanning Broadway, music, movies, and television, Billy's tales an ...Show more
A Sense of Balance by John Howard
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect the sense of balance ...Show more
Desire: A Reckoning by Jessie Cole
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard he growls. When my pup growls, I realise I need to find some other way of letting off steam. It's easy to imagine I could just touch myself and be done with it, but no matter how many times I make myself co ...Show more
Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for commun ...Show more
Finding My Bella Vita: A story of family, food, fame and working out who you are by Pia Miranda
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi. But playing Josie is only one small part of everything that has shaped the woman Pia has become. As a child, her Nonna would tell her stories ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, h ...Show more
Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood by Gavin Edwards
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A fascinating exploration and celebration of the life and work of the coolest man in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson--from his star-making turns in the films of Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino to his ubiquitous roles in the Star Wars and Marvel franchises, not to mention the cult favorite Snakes on a Plane ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more