It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This by Lisa Wilkinson
$39.99 AUD
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Category: Auto/Biography
The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson. Lisa Wilkinson has lived her life in the public eye. One of Australia's most admired and respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training.Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic ...Show more
Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition) by Jackie Huggins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays. The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews com ...Show more
Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. When most Australians think of Nellie Melba they picture a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for three decades and was the inspiration for a peach ...Show more
Orchard: a Year in England's Eden by Benedict Macdonald; Nicholas Gates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-winning author of RebirdingSpend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life. England's ancient orchards, collaborations between people and nature, are sources of hope for the future. Protecting them promises a far richer England fo ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Memoirs of An Addicted Brain - A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on drugs by Marc Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it ...Show more
Invention: A Life by James Dyson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Dyson has become a byword for high performing products, technology, design and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of th ...Show more
Before & Laughter by Jimmy Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sa ...Show more
Daring to Fly by Lisa Millar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
There are significant moments in life that you only really appreciate long after they have passed ... And then there are moments that are so magnificent you understand in an instant that they need to be treasured because the universe is offering you something truly inspiring. Lisa Millar has spent her ...Show more
Home Truths: A Memoir (HB) by David Williamson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North , as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in ...Show more