Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'We're not perfect, but we're working on it' -- Hoges' love letter to Australia Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories - The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
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Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinar ...Show more
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Henry Oster and Dexter Ford
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Of the 2,011 Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo and deported from Cologne, Henry Oster was one of only 19 German-speaking Jewish boys to emerge alive from the concentration camps after the war. Henry Oster was just five years old, a wide-eyed boy from the beautiful ancient city of Cologne, Germany, ...Show more
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
9.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This ...Show more
My Name Is Selma - The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbruck Survivor by Selma van de Perre
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. I have recorded the small details that made up our lives, the sheer luck that saved some of us and the atrocities that l ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
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Category: Biography
A Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Spectator book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearAn Evening Standard book of the yearA Stella Magazine book of the year From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kit ...Show more
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic by Christina Lamb
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34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography
A story of worlds colliding and a snapshot of modern Britain – with all its goodness and warmth, and all its problems. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the government launched its ‘Everyone In' programme, aiming to house the homeless through lockdown. The Prince Rupert, a 4∗ hotel in Shrewsbury with four ...Show more
How (Not) to Start an Orphanage by Tara Winkler
14.99 AUD
32.99 (54% off)
Category: Biography
How could it be wrong to save the children by starting an orphanage? Oh, in so many ways . . . Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia to join a tour group in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, and Tara was determined to raise money t ...Show more
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Nedd Brockmann
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10 times' to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers. When Nedd Brockmann set out to run the 3,953 kilometres from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach in the fastest k ...Show more