I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it by Alex Noble
29.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
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
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, St ...Show more
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
33.99 AUD
35.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted, Y ...Show more
The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air. Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and inter ...Show more
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia by Andra Putnis
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled ...Show more
Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining by Julia Baird
28.50 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
The Long Goodbye: Lessons on humanity from the grips of Alzheimer's by Keri Kitay
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
A powerful mix of memoir and hard-earned knowledge, in The Long Goodbye, Keri Kitay charts her family's poignant and devastating journey after their mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. When Keri Kitay's mother, Terry, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, nothing cou ...Show more
Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong by Kerstin Pilz
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and 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
Margaret Olley: Far From A Still Life by Meg Stewart
28.50 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
With new chapters taking in the last few years of Margaret Olley's life, her state funeral and the enormous legacy she has left behind. 'A great painter, a great woman, a great story' Barry Humphries Margaret Olley is arguably Australia's most loved artist. She was also one of the country's most generou ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Neverland: American and Australian surfers in Byron Bay 1960s & 1970s by Tricia Shantz
70.00 AUD
Category: Travel Memoir
How Byron went from provincial abattoir town to hippie surfer underground enclave to a world-class culture and festival mecca with some of the priciest real estate in Australia. These are the stories of the young American and Australian surfers, who came to Byron in search of that different life. A surf ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change by Helen Brown
32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more