World War Bloody Timor by Peter O’Hanlon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
World War Bloody Timor gives a revealing insight into the extraordinary life of the everyday digger and service in a conflict that was far from ordinary. My name is Peter O’Hanlon, but everyone in the military, from the lowest digger to the highest officer, has always called me ‘Irish’. You won't see me ...Show more
Wotan's Daughter: The life of Marjorie Lawrence by Richard Davis
$39.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Wotan's Daughter recounts the turbulent life and career of Marjorie Lawrence, one of Australia's most renowned opera stars. From humble beginnings in rural Victoria, Lawrence rose to become one of the pre-eminent Wagner singers of her generation, acclaimed and honoured in Europe and at the Metropolitan ...Show more
Written in the Sky by Mark Carr
$39.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
This 'techno-biography' is written for those who, like him, have hydraulic oil flowing through their veins. However also gives readers of a non-flying background an insight into military and civil aviation. Sit in the cockpit with Mark and gain a rare insight into how these amazing machines, that we now ...Show more
Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A timely political primer on Xi Jinping by acclaimed author and academic, Professor Kerry Brown.
Yasuke: The True Story of a Legendary African Samurai by Thomas Lockley; Geoffrey Girard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more
You Be the Judge by H. Clark Adams
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
It's enough to put you off wedded bliss forever, but if you did harbour strong opinions on how the case Smith v Brown -- a couple on the brink of matrimony, interfering relatives notwithstanding -- should unfold, H. Clark Adams welcomes you to the legal arena of small claims court. Here feuding former l ...Show more
You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. With the spirit of reflection and empathy she's known for, ...Show more
You Had Me at Pet-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir by Rachel Signer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
From the publisher of Pipette Magazine, discover a natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion--and falling in love. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel M ...Show more
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen by Shannon Molloy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
Part memoir, part investigation into the taboo topic of male child sexual abuse, You Made Me This Way is a very personal book, driven by Shannon revealing his own experience of having been sexually abused as a young child, and his grappling to understand how this has shaped him. The majority of men sex ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more