A Funny Life - The Autobiography by Michael McIntyre
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Michael McIntyre is a much-loved stand-up comedian, with sell-out international tours and the hugely popular television series Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and The Wheel. But the road to stardom was paved with near-disasters, as he hilariously recounts in his autobiography. Picking up where his first bo ...Show more
Funkytown by Paul Kennedy
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Category: Auto/Biography
Paul Kennedy's Funkytown is the vivid true story of a year in the life of a teenager leaping into manhood. It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, sevent ...Show more
Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind by Ant Middleton
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Category: Auto/Biography
The brilliant new book from the multiple Sunday Times bestselling author that will explains the principles behind maintaining a healthy mind and body. The mind and body are often talked about as separate entities, but it’s only when they work in harmony with one another that one can truly push oneself ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
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Category: Auto/Biography
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren ...Show more
Take Risks by John Marsden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Life is a thrilling adventure. Our children get only rare glimpses of the possibilities. To roam, to dare, to fail ... these are the rights of children. John Marsden, the award-winning, bestselling author of the Tomorrow series, has spent his life educating kids and teenagers. He is passionate about the ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
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Category: Auto/Biography
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is Britain's favourite (and naughtiest) treasu ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
"With a new preface by the author"--Cover.
Accidental Weatherman by Sam Mac
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The Accidental Weatherman is the story of what happens when a hilarious Adelaide boy who knows nothing about meteorology scores the coveted weatherman gig on the highest rating breakfast TV show in Australia.As the Sunrise weatherman, Sam Mac has bungee jumped, swum with sharks, got his cat on the cover ...Show more
Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys by Jenny Nordberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead. Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliamentaria ...Show more
The Nazis Knew My Name by Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
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Category: Auto/Biography
The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other y ...Show more