No Time for Fear: How a Shark Attack Survivor Beat the Odds by Paul De Gelder; Sue Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. These three words--the mantra of the Australian Army--resonated with Paul de Gelder the first time he heard them. Paul chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a hoodlum teen and his drug-and-alcohol fueled stint working in a strip club to hauling his ...Show more
Bert: The Story of Australia's Favourite TV Star by Graeme Blundell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Personally, he is a fine man. Professionally, he is one of the best television performers I've ever seen.' Bob Hope on Bert Newton. The millions of Australians who have watched Bert over the years would whole-heartedly agree. TV and radio host, compere, interviewer, all round media personality, Bert Ne ...Show more
Ring of Bright Water: A Trilogy by Gavin Maxwell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Nonpareil Books
This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969). Maxwell was both an extraordinarily evocative writer and a highly unusual man. While touring the Iraqi marshes, he ...Show more
Seven Seasons in Aurukun: My unforgettable time at a remote Aboriginal school by Paula Shaw
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Arriving in a tiny Aboriginal community in far north Queensland, Paula had little idea what to expect. Seven Seasons in Aurukun is her very personal story of teaching at the local school and making a life for herself in a challenging new world. In the unrelenting tropical heat, she discovers there's an ...Show more
The Making of a Chef by Luke Mangan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Making of a Chef takes us through the highs and lows of Luke's career and gives us insight into the life of a working chef, beyond the glamour and glitz and into the making of today's celebrity - the chef.
My Dead Parents - A Memoir by Anya Yurchyshyn
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anya Yurchyshyn grew up in a narrow townhouse in Boston, every corner filled with the souvenirs of her parents' adventurous international travels. On their trips to Africa, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, her mother, Anita, and her father, George, lived an entirely separate life from the one they led as the pa ...Show more
Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a ...Show more
Welcome to Story Club - Candid True Tales by Australia's Funniest Oversharers by Ben Jenkins; Zoe Norton Lodge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A hilarious, no-holds-barred collection of true stories from Story Club, the legendary live show that spawned the hit podcast In this first collection from Story Club, the legendary live show that has become a hit podcast, Club founders and popular Checkout presenters Zoe Norton Lodge and Ben Jenkins h ...Show more
Why You Are Australian by Nikki Gemmell
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
A love letter to Australia, from a London exile. Includes all new updated extra chapter! When expatriate novelist Nikki Gemmell had her children in London, she chose to give them Aussie citizenship over British. This is why. Why You Are Australian is an examination of our country thirty years ago and to ...Show more
My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A fun read, similar... to Tina Fey's BOSSYPANTS or Amy Poehler's YES PLEASE ... a book-length piece of standup' GUARDIAN 'Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman that usually only exists in yogurt commercials. But she's real and she's all ours!' TINA FEY 'Hilarious' MIND ...Show more
Magic by Jan Golembiewski
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I couldn't put it down.' Sofie LagunaThis is a true story. A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake.In the Caribbean, he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him ...Show more
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of Salem cigarettes. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small town on the Kentucky and Tennessee border. It was o ...Show more