About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Transgender | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
Just Kids Illustrated Edition by Patti Smith
$60.00 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life wh ...Show more
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired 'Doctor Zhivago'. 'Doctor Zhivago' has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say 'Lara exist ...Show more
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter, growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic drama is played against the extraordinary political ...Show more
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eve ...Show more
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about t ...Show more
Nobody Will Tell You This but Me: A True (as told to me) Story by Bess Kalb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
"When I stop crying, I'm calling my mother immediately and making her read it." --Jodi Picoult "Comic lines as good as in any movie, and pathos as deep as in any novel" --Mike Birbiglia Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever ...Show more
A Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he m ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'Being a copper?s son, I?ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can?t help it. But I don?t go looking for it anymore.?In Tim Winton?s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton?s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtaintake us be ...Show more
The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more