Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Wal ...Show more
The Secret Life of Flying: What really happens when you travel by air by Jeremy Burfoot
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
How does a plane stay up in the air? Does the Mile High Club actually exist? When you flush the toilet, where does it all go? Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain Jeremy Burfoot. With more than 35 years of airline experience, the former Qantas pilot presents an ...Show more
Paris for Beginners: A memoir by Rachael Coopes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Gorgeous travel memoir set in Paris from Play School presenter, award-winning screenwriter and author of Find Your Strength, Rachael Coopes. For fans of Eat Pray Love,Almost French and Emily In Paris. 'Enchanting, amusing, life-affirming and wise.' Toni Pearen Sometimes the best compass to follow is you ...Show more
Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script by Qin Qin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
"We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Lisa Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing everything right? It made her lost and miserable. So she decided to take a spectacular ri ...Show more
Datsun Angel: A true-story adventure inside the savage heart of 1980s Australia by Anna Broinowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Datson Angel is a turbo-charged adventure into the dark heart of 1980s Australia: a place completely alien, yet frighteningly similar, to today. EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK HAPPENED . . . At seventeen, aching to begin her adult life, Anna Broinowski is precocious, naïve and in her first year of Arts/Law at ...Show more
Home Work Essays on Love & Housekeeping by Helen Hayward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking after her home was not. She had long been instructed to put her career first. So she did. Yet what to do with the mushroom ...Show more
Terra Nova: Ambition, jealousy and simmering rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Harrison Christian
$36.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
‘A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.’ – Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The ap ...Show more
Surf Like A Woman: Becoming World Champ when women weren't welcome on the waves by Pauline Menczer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A memoir with deeply feminist themes detailing the challenging and inspiring life of Pauline Menczer, World Surfing Champion and star of the hit documentary, Girls Can't Surf. In the 80s and 90s, surf culture was toxic, especially towards women. But Pauline Menczer - a dirt-poor, chronically ill, freck ...Show more
Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
'I am deeply terrified by the obsessions crawling over my body, whether they come from within me or from outside. I fluctuate between feelings of reality and unreality. I, myself, delight in my obsessions.' Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This engaging aut ...Show more
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess by Danny Sugerman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Abacus Bks.
At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's prot g and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and then Iggy Pop. He also plunged gleefully into the glamorous ...Show more
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it by Alex Noble
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn’t about the hand you’re dealt, but how you choose to play it. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his l ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
$26.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more