Leila's Secret by Kooshyar Karimi
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women who beg him to save their lives by ending pregnancies that would see them stoned to death. One of those women is Leila. She yearns ...Show more
My Lucky Stroke: Searching for Sarah by Sarah Brooker
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet. On New Year's Eve, 2002, an unbelievable series of events occurred: a brain aneurysm, a devastating car accident, a body broken and a mind shattered. A life was changed forever. Several weeks la ...Show more
All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.
The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near-perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various toilet mishaps. She soon realised that she was the Doug Pitt to her ...Show more
MBS The Rise to Power of Mohammad Bin Salman by Ben Hubbard
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Even in his youth as a prince among thousands of princes, Mohammed bin Salman nurtured sweeping ambitions. He wanted power - enough of it to reshape his hyper-conservative, insular Islamic kingdom. When his ...Show more
Becoming Dr. Seuss - Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones
31.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites becau ...Show more
Most Dangerous Man In The World: The Inside Story On Julian Assange And WikiLeaks by Andrew Fowler
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"The Most Dangerous Man in the World is the definitive account of WikiLeaks, threats against its existence and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets. Through interviews with Julian Assange, his inner circle and those who fell out with him, Andrew Fowler tells the story of how a man ...Show more
Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion by Christopher McDougall
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bestselling author of Born to Run rehabilitates a donkey to winning success. When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment has ...Show more
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code - The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia ... Dr Claire Weekes knew how to treat them, but was dismissed a ...Show more
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Hisham Matar has the quality all historians - of the world and the self - most need: he knows how to stand back and let the past speak' Hilary Mantel on The Return ____________________________________ When Hisham Matar was nineteen years ...Show more
Being Lolita - A Memoir by Alisson Wood
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North. He praises her as a special and gifted wr ...Show more
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks - My life in the Death Zone by Nirmal Purja
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
My comfort zone begins where most individuals quit. As a kid in Nepal, I went barefoot because my family had nothing. That's how I developed the resilience I needed for joining the Gurkhas - one of the most fearless forces in the British Army. Then against all odds, I became the first ever Gurkha soldie ...Show more