Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal by Russell Brand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much more than t ...Show more
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage dur ...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
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of T ...Show more
A Certain Light by Cynthia Banham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn't for me.' Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham's inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means: 'This book tells a story that I tried to write ma ...Show more
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world-without a road map to guide her. The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college stud ...Show more
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. "I ...Show more
Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
"Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. As a teenager he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills ...Show more
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
Black Klansman: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE by Ron Stallworth
$19.98 AUD
Category: Biography
The #1 New York Times Bestseller The extraordinary true story and basis for the major motion picture BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of ...Show more
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical f ...Show more