Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood by Danny Trejo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Outlaw stories from the frontiers of prison, Hollywood and life. And you'd never guess that the baddest of the bad-me-would make it out of the prison system and instead of dying in the street as a stone-cold junkie and killer, I'd end up being shot, stabbed, decapitated, blown up, hanged, flattened by a ...Show more
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life by Clem Bastow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social engagement confusing, arbitrary a ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more
Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
In this generous account of life on the land and in the kitchen, trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles her quest for a more sustainable existence, in harmony with the environment and the self. Part meditation, part memoir, the book offers practical advice and wisdom gleaned from a life dedicated t ...Show more
Last Shot (HB) by Jock Zonfrillo
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Auto/Biography
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to one of Australia's top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire. Jock's life spiralled out o ...Show more
Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American by Damien Cave
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the local pursuits of Nippers and surfing - and a completely different approach to risk that changed the way they lived their lives.Damien Cave has always been fascinated by risk. Having ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
Ten Thousand Aftershocks by Michelle Tom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
After Michelle Tom's house was damaged by a deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, she and her young family suffered through another 10,000 aftershocks before finally relocating to the stability of Melbourne, Australia. But soon after arriving, Michelle received the news t ...Show more
Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Dissolve is a deeply personal, profoundly intimate reflection on love and female creativity in a man's world, and what happens when it all collides. Having lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of a time of failure, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced. Decades later she has written a ...Show more
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud by Mehreen Faruqi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A no-holds-barred memoir and outspoken manifesto from Senator, role model, and modern Australian hero Mehreen Faruqi. Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud is a no-holds-barred memoir and manifesto from outspoken senator, trouble¬maker and multicultural icon Mehreen Faruqi. As the first Muslim woman in any ...Show more
The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more