Bear Grylls : Two All-Action Adventures by Bear Grylls
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: 16
A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures - Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean. At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty coping with the adverse effects of mountaineering. Nevert ...Show more
I'll Drink to That - New York's Legendary Personal Shopper and Her Life in Style - With a Twist by Betty Halbreich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Betty Halbreich is a true original. Now in her eighties, she has spent nearly forty years at the luxury store Bergdorf Goodman, working with socialites, stars and ordinary women. She has led many to appreciate their real selves through clothes, frank advice and her unique brand of wisdom; she is trusted ...Show more
Black by Design: A 2-tone Memoir by Pauline Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is a powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter. Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently adopted by a white, working class family in Romford. Never quite at home there, she escaped her small town background and discovered ...Show more
Lucky Dog How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life by Sarah Boston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'What a remarkable book-both howlingly funny and deeply moving. This veterinary oncologist's story of looking after dogs and other animals, and looking after herself after her own cancer diagnosis, taught me volumes about illness, healthcare and love.
A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned and placed in the 'care' of sadistic foster parents. But there comes a point in her preteen years maybe it's the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex al ...Show more
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and quick-witted, her charm was legendary and with her ...Show more
Hope in a Ballet Shoe by Elaine DePrince, Michaela DePrince
$15.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels and her mother dies of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela is mistreated and she sees the brutal murder of her favourite ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Canons
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking fligh ...Show more
All Things Strange and Wonderful by Dr Reb
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As a newly graduated vet Dr. Reb signed up for a two-year stint with the Peace Corp Volunteers, and found himself in Malawi. A national fuel shortage meant no delivery of supplies, and he had to improvise at every turn. Then he was introduced to a local witch doctor, Dr. Mzimba, and two very sick puppie ...Show more
The Children's Madiba: The Life Story of Nelson Mandela by Sean Fraser
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is the story of how a young Xhosa herdboy, growing up among the green hills of the Eastern Cape, became the first black president of South Africa. As he studied and became a lawyer in Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela saw more and more how unfair the laws of the country were to black people, and how the ...Show more
Mezza Italiana: An Enchanting Story About Love, Family, La Dolce Vita and Finding Your Place in the World by Zoe Boccabella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Growing up in Brisbane in the 1970s and 80s, Zoe Boccabella knew if you wanted to fit in, you did not bottle tomatoes, have plastic on the hallway carpet or a glory box of Italian linens. Though she tried to be like 'everyone else', refusing to learn Italian and even dyeing her dark hair blonde, Zoe cou ...Show more
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela; Sahm Venter (Editor); Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela