Warming Up Julia Child: The Remarkable Figures Who Shaped a Legend by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
40.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Pulitzer Prize finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life--the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career. Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innova ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holl ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from t ...Show more
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech titans bragged they would 'move fast and break things', Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering ...Show more
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In ...Show more
An Autobiography of Trauma - A Healing Journey by Peter A. Levine
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate memoir from Peter Levine, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing and bestselling author of Waking the Tiger. In this intimate memoir, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing Peter A. Levine shares his personal journey to heal his own severe childhood trauma as well as offering prof ...Show more
Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIALTHIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction book of the century - a frank, funny and furious look at the brutal realities of life in the NHS.But it was only part of Adam Kay's story.With his stethoscope now hung up, Adam share ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Susan R. Barry
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Dear Dr. Sacks . . . You asked me if I could imagine what the world would look like when viewed with two eyes. I told you that I thought I could . . . But, I was wrong." At once intimate and inspiring, in this book Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became dear ...Show more
A Visible Man by Edward Enninful
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *'I wish he could be editor of the world!' GRAHAM NORTON'Courageously truthful' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Inspiring and fascinating' BERNARDINE EVARISTOEdward Enninful has lived an extraordinary life.Here, for the first time, he shares the inspiring st ...Show more
Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The most beautiful and inspiring memoir you'll read in 2023TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies.Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The ...Show more