Unbreakable by Jess Halloran, Jelena Dokic
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell.Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more
Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive by Jelena Dokic
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you find your voice when you feel worthless and scared? In Jelena Dokic’s first bestselling book, Unbreakable, the former world No. 4 revealed her incredible survival story; how she overcame adversity, poverty ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life by Kristine Philipp
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that). Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Oscar Piastri The Rookie: In the Driver's Seat with the Next F1 Legend by Andrew van Leeuwen
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A riveting account of motorsport phenom Oscar Piastri's first season in Formula 1, The Rookie charts his meteoric rise through the ranks to become McLaren's chosen young gun and takes us behind the scenes in his mission to triumph in the do-or-die world of the Fastest Show on Earth. The meteoric rise of ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars by Abbas El-Zein
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound - either tragic or amusing, sometimes both - between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, wit ...Show more
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more