Keith Urban: His amazing journey from daydreamer to superstar by Jeff Apter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
A comprehensive biography that documents how Keith Urban lived out his childhood dream - and the price he's had to pay to reach the top. Keith Urban came from humble origins. Born in New Zealand and raised in outer Brisbane, his father worked at the local tip; Keith was a high school dropout. When he w ...Show more
Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation by Hannah Gadsby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: 17
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global s ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the USA, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles ...Show more
Into the Suburbs: A Migrant's Story by Christopher Raja
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'In Calcutta we were crammed in among crowds, traffic and pollution. We had visions of breathing fresh, clean air and living in a classless society where everyone was your mate.'Christopher Raja was eleven years old when his father, David, decided to move the family to Australia in pursuit of the idylli ...Show more
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: very good
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age o ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
Spanian: The Unfiltered Hood Life by Spanian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir
By the time he was twelve, Spanian knew he would follow his family's footsteps to become a career criminal. What followed was a decade-long string of brazen crimes and brutal violence: stabbings, ram-raids, drug runs and a notorious high school siege. Throughout the Sydney social housing enclaves of Red ...Show more
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir
"In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten’s mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After eventually discovering the grandparents she loved dearly ...Show more
Killing Time by Jimmy Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
Bee Gees: Children of the World by Bob Stanley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
"'The Definitive Biography' - PETE PAPHIDES The world is full of Bee Gees fans. Yet, for a band of such renown, little is known about Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb. Weren't two of them twins? Didn't one of them marry Lulu? Where does Andy fit into the Gibb family tree? And why did they storm out of ...Show more
Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood by Alexandra Collier
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Alexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved. But when she woke up to a ravenous hunger to have a baby that her partner didn't share, she had to make a choice between love or a future family. She chose family, which catapulted her life ba ...Show more
A Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie ...Show more