Fitting in by Colin Thompson
42.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
"Everything in this book is true. You might think some things are just too unbelievable or funny or silly to be true, but every tiny detail really did happen." Take one small boy; add manic depression, three wives, three daughters, two divorces, amazing creative talent, and Asperger's syndrome. In th ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
Girl On The Edge by Kim Hodges
23.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Girl on the Edge is the incredible memoir of Kim Hodges, detailing her adolescent experiences growing up in a small rural town of NSW. Her upbringing has niggled away in the back of her mind since she was seven years of age. Now a family woman with three children of her own, Kim has found the courage an ...Show more
Optimism by Bob Brown
23.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown. It is a powerful book as well as a meditation on the great and the small. Inspirational, compassionate, outraged, Bob Brown's stories are rich with metaphor, entertaining and fu ...Show more
Notes from A Small Island by Bill Bryson
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Category: Travel Memoir
"In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
20.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more
Rise & Rise Of Kerry Packer 'uncut' by Paul Barry
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Paul Barry's THE RISE AND RISE OF KERRY PACKER is a classic piece of Australian non-fiction publishing. Originally released in 1993 when Packer was still alive, it has sold well over a quarter of a million copies and is widely seen as the definitive book on a man who throughout his remarkable life mysti ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
21.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
William & Catherine : Their Romance and Royal Wedding in Photographs by David Elliot Cohen
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
This is the perfect title for the many people fascinated by the pageantry and fairy-tale romance of a British royal wedding. It looks at William and Catherine's lives before their engagement, the announcement and events leading up to the wedding and the wedding day itself. It will include photographs fr ...Show more
Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal by Russell Brand
23.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
In the sequel to Russell's best-selling biography 'My Booky Wook' we follow the now sober but still scandalous, sex-fuelled star on his electrifying rise to international fame. A roller coaster ride through tours, films, stand up and tabloids - this time, it's personal. Rarely has a sequel delivered on ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler; Harry Brockway
14.25 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more