The Women's Doc: True Stories from My Five Decades Delivering Babies and Making History by Caroline de Costa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician. 'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology ...Show more
Hawking Hawking - The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife
$44.99 AUD
$49.99 (10% off)
Category: Auto/Biography
Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true talent was self-promotion? When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person. He was neither. In Hawking Hawking, ...Show more
Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
No One Listens to Your Dad's Show by Christian O'Connell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
The hilarious and moving story of Christian O'Connell's very public mid-life crisis. 'Funny, honest and so raw. If Christian's cardiologist is suddenly wondering where his heart has gone, you'll find it all in this book.'Hamish Blake'I knew it would be clever, I knew it would be funny, but what I didn' ...Show more
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father ...Show more
28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love by Brandon Jack
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man. 'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing' Malcolm Knox'Brandon Jack is a force for good' Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the Shameless podcastContinually t ...Show more
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Happy Endings by Bella Green
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Bella Green is a Sunday-afternoon sex worker. Divorced dads, IT nerds, international students - she's here for the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour, for soothing the lonely. But really for the cash. From an entrepreneurial kid to a young woman trying to find herself (and desperate to stay out of call c ...Show more
True North: A Memoir by Catherine Deveny
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life's upheavals - and how to live authentically Breaking up isn't a conscious decision, it's more of a revelation ... In the first few moments after waking each day I needed to remind myself who I was and what had happened. It was like pulling a compass o ...Show more
Delta - Bridge Over Troubled Dreams by Delta Goodrem
$39.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In her first-ever book, Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem shares the intimate stories behind each of the tracks on her sixth studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Dreams, taking readers on a deep dive into her inspiration for each song and revealing the truth behind the lyrics. From the touching a ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings by Inga Clendinnen; James Boyce (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger's Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen's life and ...Show more