Defying the Enemy Within: How I silenced the negative voices in my head to survive and thrive by Joe Williams (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Former NRL player, world boxing title holder and proud Wiradjuri First Nations man Joe Williams was always plagued by negative dialogue in his head, and the pressures of elite sport took their toll. Joe eventually turned to drugs and alcohol to silence the dialogue, before attempting to take his own lif ...Show more
Yak on Track - An unforgettable adventure in the last Himalayan kingdom by Heather McNeice
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It seemed like a good idea to Heather at the time: organise a challenging trek to raise funds for the education of young Bhutanese girls. Heather had walked in the Himalayas before, so how hard could it be on the trail to Lunana, Bhutan's most remote plateau? On the 240-kilometre trek, she discovers tha ...Show more
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversi ...Show more
Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade...' - Financial Times 'To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley' - Times Literary Supplement 'Brilliant and enthralling' - Independent On Su ...Show more
The Good Bohemian by Michael Holroyd; Rebecca John
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday TimesTwelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private ceremony at St Pancras Registry Office. The union went ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: 100 years of dirt
Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction One Hundred Years of Dirtis an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a he ...Show more
Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home by Sisonke Msimang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
If I were given five minutes with my younger self--that little girl who cried every time we had to leave for another country--I would hold her tight and not say a word. I would just be still and have her feel my beating heart, a thud to echo her own--a silent message that, no matter the outcome, she wou ...Show more
The Real Lolita - The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and soc ...Show more
House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This affecting biography of the author of "Anne of Green Gables" is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Illustrations.
High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could curb her love of big nights. And then c ...Show more
A House in the Sky : A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything by Amanda Lindhout; Sara Corbett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The inspiring story of a woman who survived kidnap and being held captive for a year in war-torn Somalia . . . Amanda Lindhout loved to travel. She backpacked around the world, crossing borders, enthralled by what she encountered. This led her to becoming a reporter, working in war-ridden Afghanistan an ...Show more
Gorgeous Girl by Mary Pershall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017, there was a sentencing hearing for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. The young woman in the dock, who sat quietly with her hands in her lap, had perfect skin and light-brown hair tied back as neatl ...Show more