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Poster Child: A Memoir
$12.00 AUD
Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens...
Gypsy Boy on the Run
A young man's struggle to escape a secret world. GYPSY BOY: ON THE RUN picks up from where Gypsy Boy left off, and tells the gripping, page-turning story of Mikey's...
Unbreakable: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'Reading this is like
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 and THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 'Reading this is like...
The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age
I looked in the mirror one morning, and saw the face of a stranger. Who was she, this haggard, bun-faced woman with the softening jawline, the downturned mouth, the world-weary...
My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times
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In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and...
You Are the Key: Turning Imperfections into Purpose
For anyone who feels less-than about your work, your worth, your body, or the life you're building, find here an incredible hope: you don't have to have it all together...
Daddy's Rules
Her father ruled her world. Her mother couldn't save her. So she had to save herself. Rachel Sontag grew up in a family of four whose apparently happy exterior concealed...
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
The letters of a great English writer 'Of all the novelists in English of the last quarter-century, Penelope Fitzgerald has the most unarguable claim on greatness.' Philip Hensher * Penelope...
Unbreakable
Within a week of birth Andrew Zagami had to undergo brain surgery. As a teenager he suffered a fractured spine. Later in life he was diagnosed with cancer on three...
Expecting Adam: A true story of birth, transformation and
Somewhere To Lay My Head
We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his...
Swan River (PB)
Sis - as David Reynolds' grandmother was always called - was a passionate and headstrong young woman. Having betrayed herself by falling in love too trustingly, she added to her...
Trisha - As I am
Brought up in Tanzania and Surrey, Trisha's early career as an air stewardess led to travel writing for magazines and then, when she settled in Australia in the mid-1980s, a...
The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
Since Carol Drinkwater moved to an olive farm in France, she has developed a passion for the olive tree and the culture that has grown up around it. This fruit...
Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World
$12.00 AUD
Lynne was just an ordinary Southern mom when the overnight success of her daughter Britney shoved the Spears family into the blinding limelight glare.Through the Storm takes readers beyond the...
Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery
$10.00 AUD
The remarkable true story of one woman's journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted...
Invisible: A Memoir
The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen 'You...
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
Autobiographical writing is redefining the meaning of narrative, as the recent explosion of memoirs by writers such as Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Dave Eggers, and Kathryn Harrison suggests. But what's...
Call Me Ted: The Autobiography of the Extraordinary Business Leader
CNN, AOL/Time Warner, Jane Fonda, The America's Cup: Ted Turner's story is the stuff of legend. Never before has the controversial businessman shared his personal journey. Here, for the first...
Rurally Screwed: My Life Off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love
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Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and...
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught...
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of
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Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced...
The Summer of a Dormouse
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In this delightful and touching autobiography, the creator of the Rumpole series and author of the bestselling Paradise Postponed continues the story he began in his beloved Clinging to the...
Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer
Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before...
Freedom of the Skies: Adventures Around the World in a Light Aircraft
In June 1989 Margi Moss and her husband took off from Rio de Janeiro in a single-engined aeroplane to embark on a journey around the world. In a haphazard route,...
Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil
Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their high security prisons, and...
A Man Named Dave
'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's...
Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,
Tells the story, via the letters they wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two...
About Time Too: 1940-78
With this second volume of autobiography Penelope Mortimer covers the three decades, from the acceptance of her first novel in 1945 ("intended as an immense historical saga about the collapse...
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil
This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it,...
Belonging
Abandoned by her parents, Sameem Ali spent six and a half years growing up in a children's home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back...
Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story - The Heroic Account of How Pitch
On September 11th, leading seven companies of firefighters up the B stairway to Tower 1 of the World Trade Centre, Battalion Commander Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto was the highest ranking fire...
How to Be a Woman
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The book that launched a feminist revolution--the hilarious memoir/manifesto from Caitlin Moran, "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into...
Bra Boy: Surfer, Fighter, Larrikin
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Bear Is Now Asleep
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir
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People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust
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