The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more
The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia by Om Dhungel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of ...Show more
Sons of Beaches by Bill McDonough
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Category: Biographies
Family, fame and tragedy, the story of Australian Crawl's Bill and Guy McDonough. Founded in 1978, Australian Crawl has sold over 2 million records and been awarded some of Australia's highest music accolades, including an induction to the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1996. This is the true story of two brother ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Weatherman Goes Bush by Graham Creed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
A memoir about the unexpected joys and challenges of a tree-change from a television studio to a farm, from a beloved former ABC weather presenter. The expectations of a tree-change rarely meet the reality, but for TV weatherman-cum-farmer Graham Creed, being immersed in the weather every day, rather th ...Show more
Hook, Line and Sinner by Tom Nash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
Fuelled by Tom 'Hookie' Nash's dark humour and razor-sharp wit, Hook, Line & Sinner is an 'anti-inspirational' take on disability, a wild ride of survival and a case study in redefining life's limitations on your own terms. Tom 'Hookie' Nash has spent his adult life mesmerising audiences around the ...Show more
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more