Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor by Matthew McConaughey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
From the Academy Award -winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
Get the Girls Out by Bloom, Lucy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Stirring, straight-talking, incredibly inspiring, funny and full-on - Lucy Bloom is one of a kind, and so is her memoir.Lucy's open-hearted interest in the world has taken her from jillarooing on a cattle farm to maternity hospitals in Ethiopia, from marshalling a cross-country carnival in northern Ugan ...Show more
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding by KEN PETER AND SPILLMAN DOWDING
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowdi ...Show more
In/Out: A Scandalous Story of Falling Into Love and Out of the Church by Steph Lentz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
In January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian school after she came out as a lesbian. A hardcore Christian during her teens and twenties, Steph once preached against homosexuality and defended her church's conservative teachings about marriage and sex - ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof. The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, a ...Show more
My World on Wheels: The Posthumous Autobiography by Russell Mockridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
'Russell Mockridge was Australia's finest cyclist ever, but his career path was hardly conventional.' -- Harry Gordon, Olympic historianShy and bespectacled Russell Mockridge was the black sheep of Australian cycling and also its greatest all-round champion. He dominated both the track and road -- at th ...Show more
The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads by Ameliah Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads. "The inspiring story of the intrepid Dr Ameliah Scott - the Flying Vet extraordinaire - and the animals and community of the Australian outback. Ame ...Show more
Double Agent Celery MI5's Crooked Hero by CAROLINDA WITT
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secret ...Show more
A True Heart: The Fights of My Life by BILLY DIB
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Suffering with chronic asthma during the first few months of life, and growing up in one of only two Lebanese families in a tough suburb of Sydney, Billy Dib was a fighter from the day he was born. Afraid to go to school because of the constant bullying, with the strength of his faith, he learned to fig ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more