A Roll of the Dice - (Luke's Story) by Kelly Delaney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For Luke, life was a competition, and losing was never an option. He needed to be better, bigger, and more successful than everyone else.In this book, his former wife imagines what life must have been like him as he battled his demons, which were driven by his need to achieve financial success. Money wa ...Show more
A Game of Chance by Kelly Delaney
$17.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kelly is naïve and impressionable. When she is introduced to a young man on a blind date, she is immediately taken in by him. On the surface Luke is funny, smart and caring and easily impresses Kelly with his plans to settle down and have a family. Luke appears to be everything Kelly has been looking fo ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped i ...Show more
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story of a man ...Show more
In Bad Faith: Inside a secret ultra-Orthodox sect and the brutal betrayal it tried to hide by Dassi Erlich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
Breath: A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 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 faced a ...Show more
Naomi Osaka by Ben Rothenberg
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This deeply revealing biography of tennis phenomenon Naomi Osaka tells the story behind her grand slam-winning career and her advocacy for racial justice and mental health. Most tennis fans met the Haitian-American-Japanese player Naomi Osaka for the first time as they watched her win the 2018 US Open ...Show more
The Girl Who Touched The Stars by Bonnie Hancock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping account of the record-breaking circumnavigation by iron woman Bonnie Hancock. It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. 254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest eve ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more