Robin - Biography of Robin Williams by Dave Itzkoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
From "New York Times" culture reporter Itzkoff, comes the definitive biography of Robin Williams--a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.over.
Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back. by Zoe Patterson; Jane Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever bee ...Show more
Australia Day by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
George: A Memory of George Michael by Sean Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
George is the story of two extraordinary lives – the private man and the public legend. Georgios Panayiotou was just eighteen when he decided to adopt the stage name of George Michael. Sometimes his two worlds would collide with shattering consequences.Bestselling biographer Sean Smith has gone back to ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: near fine
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan.In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Bo ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Elizabeth Gilbert
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. Newly divorced journalist Elizabet ...Show more
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing ...Show more
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
Unabridged! When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers wer ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are r ...Show more
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outs ...Show more
Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: good
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's great ...Show more
Johnathan Thurston: The Autobiography by Johnathan Thurston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
The autobiography of the league legend. Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldog ...Show more