The Peppercorn Tree by John Fitzgibbon
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For fifty years, John Fitzgibbon didn't tell anyone about the abuse he had suffered at the hands of notorious priest and paedophile, Father John Day, in Mildura. Over a two-year period during primary school, John was one of Day's favourites, pulled out of class to visit Day in the presbytery. The Catho ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
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
Lies My Mirror Told Me: A Frank, Funny, Fearless Memoir by Wendy Harmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, Lies My Mirror Told Me. 'I've always believed where there's a chance, you have to take it . . . or invent it.' Wendy Harmer has had an extraordinary life. From being born with a severe facial deformity, t ...Show more
An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail by Sean Turnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
How hope became one man's closest companion in his darkest hour. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insei ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'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, Bruc ...Show more
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon an ...Show more
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. From camping in grizzly ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof. The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, a ...Show more