Educated by Tara Westover
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
"How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure themselves against a set normal and find themselves lacking? When did I know that I was plump, and then fat? Fat child, self-denying adolescent, hungry young woman; a body now burgeoning uncontrolled into m ...Show more
Foot Notes by Benjamin Allmon
$19.99 AUD
$24.95 (19% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a tale of sand, songs, survival and untimely erections, it takes a trek along the Australian coastline for Benjamin Allmon to find himself, and the true key to happiness. It is 2006. After more than a decade trying to make it in the music industry, singer-songwriter Ben is getting desperate. As his f ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundsta ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Oprah's Book Club
#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 Selection "Riveting...a worthy investment...this book has real wisdom."--New York Times Book Review "A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry should really give it a read." -- Chica ...Show more
Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong by Kerstin Pilz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A wise and witty memoir about having to care for the very person who has hurt you the most. Perfect for fans of Kathy Lette and Elizabeth Gilbert. Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her life into a champagne-coloured fairy tale. Soon after their ...Show more
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
My Big Breast Adventure by McDonald, Jennifer
$14.99 AUD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
In mid-December 2013 Jennifer McDonald was diagnosed with breast cancer, an infiltrating lobular carcinoma to be exact. Up until the moment of diagnosis she'd thought she was pretty in tune with her body, but she sure as hell didn't see this coming. There's no breast cancer in her family and she has thr ...Show more