A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the me ...Show more
You're Not Rob Snarski - Crumbs from the Cake by Rob Snarski
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Perth to Europe and all points in between, Rob Snarski shares his observations and insights from the music world he has performed in, the people he has worked with, the domesticated animals he has loved, and the things he's had to do to pay the rent. Snarski has played in legendary Australian bands ...Show more
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most? One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his son while his wife, Helene, was at a concert with friend ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian-with-some-Turkish-and-Moroccan-background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a "tea cosy" there could not be a more unlikely place on earth ...Show more
A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt by Anthony Sattin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt, a country which she had always longed to visit. B ...Show more
Who Wants to be a Billionaire?: The James Packer Story by Paul Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Who Wants to be a Billionaire? is the story of James Packer's desperate battle to win his father's love and respect. It's also a tale of billion-dollar bets gone disastrously wrong. But above all it's the portrait of a troubled relationship between a dominant father and dutiful son. In this sequel to Th ...Show more
We Are Here Talking with Australia's Oldest Holocaust Survivors by Fiona Harari
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
These are the last adult witnesses -- in their own words. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of 'inferior' groups. His goal included the eradication of European Jewry, a plan that would ultimately claim six mi ...Show more
Watto by Shane Watson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"There's nothing more we can do for you. Maybe it's time you gave up bowling. Concentrate on your batting." This was September 2007. For Shane Watson, this was a body blow, even more devastating than the injuries that had stalled his promising career. It felt like the end of his boyhood dreams of being ...Show more
Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin 'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bestselling author of Walking the Nile 'Levison Wood is "bewildered ...Show more
Wake up, Mummy - A Mother Too Drunk to Noctice by Anna Lowe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
" I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didn t really need to ...Show more
W. Axl Rose by Mick Wall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Axl Rose is one of rock's most colourful figures and yet his story has never been properly told until now. Mick Wall knew the original line-up of Guns N Roses before they were famous and has interviewed them many times. Drawing on exclusive unpublished material, he has written a no-holds-barred study of ...Show more