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The Storm Within: The Autobiography of a Legend by Cameron SMITH, with Andrew WEBSTER
$49.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
***CAPTAIN OF THE 2020 TELSTRA NRL PREMIERSHIP WINNERS THE MELBOURNE STORM*** Cameron Smith AM is the most decorated rugby league player of all time. The recipient of numerous Dally M and Golden Boot awards, he has starred in the toughest league competition on the planet every season since he made his N ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
Like Father Like Son by Michael Parkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Unbowed by Billy Hedderman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
'I woke to the sight of a hospital ceiling. For that first blissful second, I forgot that I was paralysed.' On 31 December 2014 Billy Hedderman suffered a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord while body-boarding on the Sunshine Coast, paralysing him almost completely from the neck down. When asked if ...Show more
Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps - A Personal Story by Lindsay Simpson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Adani's license to mine 60 million tonnes of coal for 60 years threatens Australia's precious ancient source of groundwater in the Galillee Basin, a vast underground water reservoir, part of the Great Artesian Basin, occupying more than 20% of Australia. How could a company with a globally disastrous re ...Show more
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Mary's Last Dance by Mary Li
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.' Mary Li (nee McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin publ ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...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: Memoirs
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 age ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon an ...Show more
