Honey Blood by Kirsty Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she’d set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At th ...Show more
Rewilding the Urban Soul: searching for the wild in the city by Claire Dunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
We're a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibil ...Show more
Australia's Toughest Sportspeople by Mick Colliss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Gillian Rolton fell off her horse, broke a rib, and climbed back on to win a gold medal for Australia at Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Unquestionably she was one of the hardest athletes in the history of Australian sport. Her death in 2017 spurred author Mick Colliss to sit down for intimate interviews with ...Show more
Built for Ballet: Leanne Benjamin by Leanne Benjamin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the world’s most important ballet dancers of the past 50 years. Leanne was born and raised in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton in a tightly knit hard-working Catholic family. At the a ...Show more
Love & Autism by Kay Kerr
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am doing love wrong.' Michael made a name for himself on the hit show Love on the Spectrum. After his televised first dating experiences, will he complete his quest to find his queen? Chloë was always good at ...Show more
Sunset in Spain by Erna Walraven
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A warm, funny and poignant story of a couple's search for new challenges while pursuing a long-held dream of living la vida loca in northern Spain.
The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet ...Show more
Ballet Confidential: A Personal Behind-the-Scenes Guide by David McAllister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
Mawson in Antarctica: To the Ends of the Earth by Joanna Grochowicz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Douglas Mawson is a national hero and Antarctic explorer, famous for one of the most extraordinary feats of endurance in the history of polar exploration. His amazing story is brought vividly to life in compelling narrative non-fiction by the acclaimed author of Into the White: Scott's Antarctic Odyssey ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more