The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
$10.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, this work brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade - illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to America. The ...Show more
Hook, Line and Sinner by Tom Nash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Fuelled by Tom 'Hookie' Nash's dark humour and razor-sharp wit, Hook, Line & Sinner is an 'anti-inspirational' take on disability, a wild ride of survival and a case study in redefining life's limitations on your own terms. Tom 'Hookie' Nash has spent his adult life mesmerising audiences around the ...Show more
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Perfect for fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed. Stephanie Land delves into the tenacity and anxiety of living – nay, surviving on poverty-level wages and intolerable working conditions. Amidst exhausting mental and physical efforts, the proverbial bootstraps bind ...Show more
If I Can, You Can The Hayden Walsh Biography by Karen O’sullivan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
If I Can, You Can is the story of 31-year-old Hayden Walsh, who lives with cerebral palsy. In his biography Hayden says, “My Mum once told me that I was given the body I have, and the life I have, and it’s up to me to make the most of it.That’s what I am doing; living with the body I was given to the ...Show more
I'll Let Myself In: Breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels by Hannah Diviney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly. When it occurred to me that the only real books I'd ever read with disabled characters in them were specialty books, displayed and designed exclusively for therapy settings, some of th ...Show more
Motherling by Jen Hutchison
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Not long ago, a grieving mother walked the ancient pilgrim pathways of the Camino de Santiago. She describes her extraordinary experiences of time and place, and makes keen observations of the lives and energy around her. In a moment of empowerment on behalf of all mothers, she invented a new and loving ...Show more
Home to Biloela: The Story of the Tamil Family that Captured Our Hearts by Priya Nadesalingam, Rebekah Holt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause clbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free. It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would ca ...Show more
Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong by Kerstin Pilz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A wise and witty memoir about having to care for the very person who has hurt you the most. Perfect for fans of Kathy Lette and Elizabeth Gilbert. Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her life into a champagne-coloured fairy tale. Soon after their ...Show more
Jali by Oliver Twist
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Twist is a star.' The Sydney Morning HeraldComedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has turned the turmoil he and his family endured into a thrilling adventure of a hero's journey. ...Show more
Merseyside to Manhattan by Bill Tyrer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is an autobiographical account of Bill Tyrer's first thirty years of life, culminating in his work aboard ships of the Cunard line. Bill encountered many of the rich and famous, including Her Royal Highness Princess Saroya, Empress of Iran, Winston Churchill Anthony Eden and Andre Gromyko, together ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more