Scandalous Freddie McEvoy by Frank Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected Nazi agent who died a mysterious death - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a young Errol F ...Show more
My Polar Dream by Jade Hameister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself incredible challenges beyond ...Show more
Closets are for Clothes: a History of Gay Australia by Rachel Cook
$18.98 AUD
Category: Biography
Some of the very first Australians were gay and lesbian: they arrived on convict ships or as free settlers and forged their own colourful and intriguing history. At times shunned from society, they fought to be treated as equals. From mollies to queers, gays and lesbians have contributed to Australian h ...Show more
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Sold into the Sex Trade by Sophie Hayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to listen and to offer comfort and advice.Her father's cold ...Show more
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A raw, vivid and ultimately uplifting memoir of addiction and recovery from the Salon.com personal essays editor, in the spirit of Drinking: A Love Story and Wild. For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was 'the gasoline of all adventure'. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly st ...Show more
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the a ...Show more
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
This Shirt Won't Iron Itself by Anthony Lehmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Regrets, Anthony Lehmann's had a few, but giving up accountancy was not one of them.In this highly entertaining memoir, radio and television funny man, stand-up comedian and all-round nice guy 'Lehmo' retraces his steps from the family farm in Peebinga in South Australia's mallee country to the world's ...Show more
Denied a Mummy by Hartley Maggie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A\Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story Ser.
When Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, it is clear that Sean, Dougie and their big sister Mary have been through unspeakable traumas in their short?lives. Violent and malnourished, ?the siblings have been left to fend for themselves by their drug-addicted parents. Maggie must use all of ...Show more
The Horses Who Heal by Suzanne Spence
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Sue Spence is a gifted horsewoman, who has made it her life's work to use her horse whispering skills to help humans. All her life, Sue has found solace and companionship with her horses. After a brush with cancer in her late thirties, Sue and her husband opted for a tree change. As a result, she was ab ...Show more
Listening to the Animals by Fitzpatrick Noel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE MASSIVE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.A powerful, heart-warming and inspiring memoir from the UK's most famous and beloved vet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - star of the Channel 4 series The Supervet. Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle ...Show more