Lillian Armfield: How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force by Leigh Straw
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Adult
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly. 'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some of the most ...Show more
The Essence of you and me by Kada Miller; Barney Miller
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The inspiring, heartwarming true story of Barney and Kada Miller. This couple prove that love and resilience can change everything. As a 20-year-old, David 'Barney' Miller was one of the best surfers on the New South Wales mid-north coast. He was looking to go professional. But when a workmate lost con ...Show more
Handful of Happiness by VACCHETTA, MASSIMO
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The heart-warming story of how a tiny hedgehog helped one man find hope. 'Could you look after it for a couple of days? . . .' So begins the extraordinary friendship between veterinarian Massimo, who is at a low spot in his life, and a tiny, orphaned hedgehog. Only a few days old, covered with soft, wh ...Show more
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Coretta is more relevant today than ever . . . a female who takes responsibility for creating something better in the time she has and the space she has to occupy: that is true greatness. And Coretta did that.' Maya AngelouBorn in 1927 in the Deep South, Coretta Scott always felt called to a special pu ...Show more
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A young man's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Sunday Times bestsellerNaoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult. In concise, engaging pieces, he shares ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Margo? by Margaret Durrell
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics- from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night s ...Show more
A Tokyo Romance - A Memoir by Ian Buruma
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival act ...Show more
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922-1923 by Albert Einstein; Ze'ev Rosenkranz (Editor)
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle East In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before. Einstein's lengthy itin ...Show more
Headstrong Daughters by Nadia Jamal
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only? What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage? Could you stay home to mourn a husband for four months and ten days? Headstrong Daughters takes us inside the lives of ...Show more
Brother by David Chariandy
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Introducing a major literary voice. This beautiful, timely novel explores love between brothers, between an immigrant family stretched to breaking point and the senseless loss of lives cut short WINNER OF THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Michael and Fran ...Show more
Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir by Norm MacDonald
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, SNL veteran, and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time. As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life--more or less--from his origins on a farm in the-back-of- ...Show more
The Blink of An Eye by Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'As gripping as a thriller' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'The most spellbinding and harrowing story I believe I have ever heard. It is the story you are about to read' From the Foreword by BILL BRYSON The powerful and moving memoir by a scientist and mother of three of how she learned to live again, after a sudden ...Show more