The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the boring bits) by Paul Hogan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switchboard lit up, he was invited back. So popular was he with viewers, ...Show more
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir. "I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, the power, the photographic storytelling of They Called Me ...Show more
Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexander
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Once I was the poster boy for corporate success, but now I'm crashing through the bush in a storm in search of a missing pig. How the hell did we end up here? Todd and Jeff have had enough of the city. Sick of the daily grind and workaday corporate shenanigans, they throw caution to the wind and buy 100 ...Show more
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$34.99 AUD
$36.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Will by Mark Will Smith Manson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The 'Event' Autobiography of the Year now out in paperback - a brave, inspiring and wildly entertaining memoir full of self-help lessons for readers, from one of the world's most charismatic and much-loved actors The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller PRAISE FOR WIL ...Show more
Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy w ...Show more
Yamakarra! by Mob, Keewong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Yamakarra is built on the memories of Liza Kennedy (1902-1996). It celebrates a group of Aboriginal people whose country is between Cobar and Ivanhoe in far western NSW and whose story will have widespread appeal. Lack of water in this region meant that the grazing industry did not take hold until the s ...Show more