The Sunday Times A Life In The Day: 60 Years Of Celebrated Personalities From The Sunday Times Magazine by Times Books
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From Oprah to Dolly, a selection of the 100 most remarkable lives as featured in The Sunday Times Magazine's "A Life in the Day." Wonderfully intimate, often humorous and occasionally profound, these portraits make for absolutely addictive reading. The first "Life in the Day" article appeared in the ...Show more
A Curious Boy - The Making of a Scientist by Richard Fortey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation' ADAM NICOLSON 'Wonderful, absolutely beguiling ... I learnt a lot and really loved it' RICHARD HOLMES 'Gloriously evocative' DAILY MAIL What makes a scie ...Show more
Ten Thousand Aftershocks by Michelle Tom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
After Michelle Tom's house was damaged by a deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, she and her young family suffered through another 10,000 aftershocks before finally relocating to the stability of Melbourne, Australia. But soon after arriving, Michelle received the news t ...Show more
The Ravenmaster - My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London PB by Christopher Skaife
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that--legend has it that if the raven ...Show more
My Life As Me: A Memoir by Barry Humphries
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', My Life as Merevisits his childhood, his adolescence, his complicated relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various distractions - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divor ...Show more
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For the first time, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback--from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable's highest-paid executive--in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law. In his early twenties Curtis Ja ...Show more
"Gelignite" Jack Murray - an Aussie larrikin legend by Phil MURRAY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of a legendary larrikin as told by his son Phil Murray. Murray was best known as the rally driver who in 1954 won the REDeX 'Around Australia' Reliability Trial without the loss of a single point; but Jack's sporting interests and achievements were eclectic and far-ranging.
Ice Age - a Journey into Crystal Meth Addiction by Luke Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A topical, insightful investigation into a drug that has taken a ferocious grip on societies around the world - told by a man intimately acquainted with it. Luke Williams was a freelance journalist researching addiction to crystallised methamphetamine (commonly known as crystal meth or ice) when the wor ...Show more
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Her travels around Australia take her to treatment facilities and AA groups. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as chil ...Show more
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sofija Stefanovic was born into a country destined to collapse. With Yugoslavia on the brink of war, her family was torn between the socialist existence they'd always known and the pull of stability on offer in the distant land of Australia. Surrounded by conflict and uncertainty, it's no wonder that So ...Show more
Detours - Tim Rogers by Tim Rogers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more
Boy Erased - A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family by Garrard Conley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, and directed by Joel Edgerton. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young ma ...Show more