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Oi Jimmy Knacker: A Memoir of an East Ender's Childhood
$15.00 AUD
Oi Jimmy Knacker is a vivid memoir of Ken Kimberley''s childhood and youth in the pre-war East End of London, illustrated in full colour by Ken''s own paintings and sketches.'
Vietnam My Great Escape
$12.00 AUD
"VIETNAM My Great Escape" takes you on a journey through war torn Vietnam to the streets of Melbourne. From peasant refugee to millionairess with all the twist and turns that...
Hilarity Ensues
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The New York Times bestselling author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and Assholes Finish First delivers a new collection of thirty 100% true, 100% exclusive stories of...
No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging
'An ambitious, nuanced and confident debut: Patel writes with passion, curiosity and purpose.' Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and award winning author of The Hate Race , Foreign Soil , The...
This Way to the Sea
'How do you like the view?' the real estate agent asks. As if he doesn't know. Horses grazing on flat land below, hillsides of tall trees, uninterrupted ocean views, plumes...
African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions
The story of a white farmer in Zimbabwe, living side by side with war veterans for 7 months. The veterans claimed the small 1000 acre farm belonged to their ancestors...
Cracks In The Ceiling
Cracks in the Ceiling is the coming-of-age saga of John Cowell. John is the hugely likeable son of Winifred, whose story he told so movingly in the bestselling biography The...
Ridin' High, Livin' Free: Hell-raising Motorcycle Stories
Sonny Barger takes to the road again with a high speed bagful of stories from life on the open highway. There's nothing quite like an open road, a tuned-up bike...
Letters to His Family
These letters and sketches by Stanford White were left by Lawrence Grant White, when he died in 1956. He had mounted them in beautiful leather-bound books, each impetuously scribbled letter...
Tales from a Bondi Vet: An international hit TV series
Currently starring in CBS'S hit series DR CHRIS: PET VET in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!,...
A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition
$12.00 AUD
The book titled A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition by the author Michael J Ritt, Jr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In a Single Bound: Losing My Leg, Finding Myself, and Training for
This is the story of how a feisty little girl from Long Island became one of the world's most famous disabled sports figures.
Jack Lenor Larsen: A Weaver's Memoir
Having graduated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the American textile designer and weaver Jack Lenor Larsen founded his own textile-design company in 1953. Today the Larsen name is synonymous...
Food And Loathing
In FOOD AND LOATHING a bright, chubby girl believes that thinness is next to godliness, and so attends one of the first meetings of Overeaters Anonymous in 1975. Her twenties...
Paris or Die
Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's story lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a...
Ngoanyana: A South African Story
Ngoanyana: A South African story is a vivid portrayal of growing up White in apartheid-era South Africa. John Nieuwenhuysen's privileged upbringing on a South African farm as the grandson of...
Diaries: 1967-87
For over three decades Roy Sstrong has teased, tantalised, amused and sometimes enraged the British public, firstly in his capacity as the Director of two great cultural institutions, the National...
Well Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives
A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield,...
The Path To Freedom: Freedom in Exile and Ancient Wisdom, Modern World
FREEDOM IN EXILE - Here, in his own words, The Dalai Lama describes what it was like to grow up revered as a deity among his people, reveals his innermost...
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family s history until the death of his parents in...
Booming
Ageing is one of humanity's greatest triumphs, yet the perception of 'getting older' remains one of great negativity. There is a choice for all of us, believes Australia's international advocate...
The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd
'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we...
Driving with Dead People
At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera...
Sky Swimming: Reflections on auto/biography, people and place
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife-black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the...
Buddha & The Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) affects more than ten million Americans, yet the disorder is shrouded in mystery. Only recently have treatments like dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) been developed for this...
In Search of Silence: A memoir of finding life after loss
Winner of Red Magazine's Book of the Year 2019 'Raw, poetic and breathtaking' Fearne Cotton 'It is rare to find an author who writes with such authenticity, empathy and humour....
Committed: A Love Story
$8.00 AUD
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when...
One Day at a Time: An inspiring memoir about the power of hope and
A treasured son. A rare condition. A memoir of loss and joy and everything in between. My mind is racing. I'm trying to make sense of what the doctors have...
A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this...
Goodbye Soldier
In "Goodbye Soldier" the central pool of artists, now rechristened the combined services entertainment, complete with Gunner Miligan, now rechristened Lance-Bambardier, makes its way across Europe, via romantic Rome and...
The Secret Mothers' Club
One night, eight women, no kids, and no holding back ... Based on true conversations with real women, The Secret Mothers' Club is a funny, irreverent and often heartbreaking look...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots' 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 "A writer to be reckoned with." -Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated...
Manuscripts Don't Burn
In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become...
I Choose To Live
I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company...
Tolstoy's Diaries
Towards the end of his life, Tolstoy, author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", said of the daily records that he had kept all his life: "the diaries are...
It's All News to Me
$12.00 AUD
Jeremy Vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in 2012 clocks up a quarter of a century at the BBC. In It's All News to...
Peggy
Pauline Neville evokes her family's recent past and recaptures the moving friendship between two cousins. This revealing memoir is also a meditation about the nature of dying and the value...
Boyhoodlum: Memoirs of a devious childhood
A hilarious memoir and a crash-investigator's report into how not to be a boy. You know those childhood memoirs that tell of the innocence of youth, of a gentle past...
Do Something for Nothing: Seeing beneath the surface of homelessness,
For fans of Humans Of New York and The Pursuit of Happyness. 'A big-hearted and world-shaking idea' - Nick Cave 'Turn a common, everyday act into something potentially transformative.' -...
What's Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients
What goes into the making of a chef, a restau rant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a differ ence on the plate, what makes them good in the...
Enriched re-defining wealth: A CEO's Story from Business Success to
If you're working harder, but enjoying work less; questioning whether your current level of success is worth the sacrifices you are making; keen to leave a legacy beyond your career...
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance
David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass of the TV...
Kisses from Katie
The New York Times bestselling account of a courageous eighteen-year-old from Nashville who gave up every comfort and convenience to become the adoptive mother to thirteen girls in Uganda. What...