Wild Fearless Chests by Mandy Beaumont
$28.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Brutal. Uncompromising. Magnificent. Complex. Unforgettable. A timely debut short story collection that breaks open the idea of women from a powerful new Australian literary voice.She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the sk ...Show more
Wild Women: A collection of first-hand accounts from female explorers by Mariella Frostrup
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricte ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed three ...Show more
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed thre ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
Will to Live by Matthew Ames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Matthew Ames, 39-year-old father of four, thought he had a bout of man flu. Very quickly, a seemingly ordinary illness became a severe case of toxic shock syndrome. The common bacteria Streptococcus A had entered his bloodstream and his body had gone into shutdown. The only way Matthew could be kept ali ...Show more
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and cel ...Show more
Will's Choice - A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery by Gail Griffith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to r ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Wine Girl by Victoria James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
An affecting memoir from a young sommelier, struggling to make her way into the glamorous but notoriously toxic restaurant world. At just twenty-one, Victoria James became America's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of ...Show more
Winning for Women: A Personal Story by Iola Mathews
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively? Iola Mathews was one of the founders of the Women's Electoral Lobby, a journalist at The Age, and later a leading ACTU advocate for women workers durin ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & 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