Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2868

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2868

Eighteen memoirs and biographies as varied as the lives they describe — athletes and comedians, journalists and explorers, including a signed copy of William McInnes. Proof that real lives are always more interesting than invented ones.

1. Marley & Me — John Grogan — life and love with the world's worst dog: the memoir that made millions of people laugh and cry in the same afternoon.
2. The Book of David: The Intriguing Story of David Helfgott — Beverley Eley — the extraordinary account of the pianist at the centre of the film Shine, told with compassion and without mythology.
3. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo — Amy Schumer — the comedian's memoir, hilarious and searingly honest, as disarming on the page as on stage.
4. A Leaf in the Bitter Wind: A Memoir — Ting-Xing Ye — an engrossing account of one woman's turbulent life in Cultural Revolution China.
5. A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad — William McInnes — autographed edition — a warm, funny memoir of Australian summers and the father who made them memorable.
6. Alphabet Soup: My Life on and Off Screen — Melissa Doyle — the television journalist's memoir of a life spent on screen, and the one that happened off it.
7. Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings — Dylan Alcott — the Australian tennis champion and disability advocate's inspiring memoir.
8. Like Father, Like Son: A Family Story — Michael Parkinson — the legendary broadcaster's account of his relationship with his father, tender and revealing.
9. Ruth Cracknell: A Biased Memoir — Ruth Cracknell — the beloved Australian actress's memoir of a life in theatre and television, characteristically witty and self-deprecating.
10. North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters — Sig Hansen and Mark Sundeen — as seen on Deadliest Catch, the story of five generations of a fishing family in the world's most dangerous waters.
11. Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament — Howard Marks — the legendary drug smuggler's final memoir, as entertaining, reckless, and strangely charming as the man himself.
12. The World from Islam: A Journey of Discovery through the Muslim Heartland — George Negus — the Australian journalist's account of travelling through the Islamic world to understand it from the inside.
13. Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge — Nick Danziger — the photojournalist returns to Britain twenty years after his first journey through its poorest communities to document what has and hasn't changed.
14. Criminal — Caspar Wacht — a memoir of growing up in a world of drugs and violence, and the long road to a different kind of life.
15. Waveman: An Autobiography — Robert Redenbach — a memoir of following your own path when every other path seemed to close.
16. The World from Italy: Football, Food and Politics — George Negus — Negus's companion volume, a warm and perceptive journey through Italian life and culture.
17. Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier — Alexandra Fuller — from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, a haunting journey through post-war Africa with a complicated, dangerous man.
18. How (Not) to Start an Orphanage ...by a Woman Who Did — Tara Winkler — an inspiring and honest story of determination, hope, and the hard lessons learned along the way.