My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag by Michelle Brasier
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Your future is not guaranteed. And isn't that freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it? That's a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there's a high chance she ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of essays and advice about navigating racism in modern Australia, and creating your own safe space, for those who have faced racial discrimination and their allies. I’ve played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. ...Show more
Life, Camera, Action by Mitchell Burns
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Category: Biography
It took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams. Now he’s making up for lost time. Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, it never felt like pursuing his p ...Show more
Elle by Elle Macpherson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Stories, memories and life lessons from an Australian icon I have learned that love is what really matters… My life experiences brought about that discovery. I deeply wish that you learn unconditional love, firstly of yourself, then of others, then of life itself. It’s your true nature. In the dazzlin ...Show more
The Afterlife Confessional by Bill Edgar
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heartbreaking and hilarious, outrageous and wise, The Afterlife Confessional is Bill Edgar's fascinating account of the things he's witnessed and learned as the Coffin Confessor - the bizarre and beautiful ways we live and love, the finality of death and the power of legacy, and how letting go can somet ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn't It Romantic. Now she's ready to chronicle the emotional and physical lessons she learned, as well as her most embarrassing experiences. A mala ...Show more
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking by Kerryn Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism – Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has led a remarkable life. Power of Balance is a landmark memoir that explores the events and ideas that have inspired and provoked her in working to create change. One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as pr ...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: 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