Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of a nation. Taking us from the early days of the Sydney Stand Up scene to hosting his own radio show, touring the world and eventual ...Show more
Breaking Badly by Georgie Dent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
At 24, life was good for Georgie Dent. After graduating with top marks she landed her dream job at a prestigious Sydney law firm and moved in with a boyfriend she adored. She had the world at her feet and no right to break. But she did. Badly. Within a year Georgie was unemployed, back living with her p ...Show more
Bono - Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My by Helen Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
Having survived a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. So when she was invited to visit New York, the city that never sleeps, she seized the day and accepted. Perhaps, she mused, she might never retur ...Show more
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
Sofija Stefanovic was born into a country destined to collapse. With Yugoslavia on the brink of war, her family was torn between the socialist existence they'd always known and the pull of stability on offer in the distant land of Australia. Surrounded by conflict and uncertainty, it's no wonder that So ...Show more
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad, Jenna Krajeski
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
`Offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil (Ian Birrell The Times) Courageous . . . Anyone who wants to under ...Show more
No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is no ...Show more
Cecil Healy - The Epic Tale of Australia's Only Olympic Gold Medallist to Die at War by John Devitt; Larry Writer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
When John Devitt won Olympic 100-metre freestyle gold in 1960, his inspiration was Healy. He always wanted to write his hero's biography. Now, on the centenary of Healy's death, Devitt has joined with Larry Writer to produce an extraordinary tale of a man who was born to swim, earned sporting immortalit ...Show more
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague by Norman Eisen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating, twisting tale of the remarkable people who lived in the ...Show more
Me. You. Not A Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Dawn French
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' Independent Me You is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It's a place for me and you to reflect on the patterns and changes of the year. It's full of my thoughts about the seasons, the months and what matters. It's your guide to re ...Show more
Lara the Runaway Cat: How One Cat Travelled the World to Discover Home Is Where the Heart Is by Dion Leonard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pup who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life. Lara doesn't realise how good she ...Show more
Say Hello by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
A forthright, honest and rousingly brave memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. What she has to live with, and what she confronts on a day to day basis will have you cheering for her and her courage. Say hello to Carly. 'In fairytal ...Show more
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A Life Reclaimed by Michelle Knight; Michelle Burford (As told to)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biographies, Memoirs & True Stories
The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope. Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, s ...Show more