Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 16
The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan."The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son." Sunday TimesWhen she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. S ...Show more
INXS: Story to Story: The Official Autobiography by INXS
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
INXS broke new musical ground. This Australian band, made up of three brothers and their three best mates, took the world by storm, turning rock, pop, and funk into a cutting edge, danceable style, and selling more than thirty million albums worldwide. "INXS: Story to Story" tells the tale of their incr ...Show more
Things A Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind by Biz Stone
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter-the social media platform that single ...Show more
Big, Beautiful & Sexy by Casey Donovan
29.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Thrust into the limelight in 2004 as the youngest ever winner of Australian Idol, Casey Donovan has experienced the best and worst that winning a reality television show can offer. The success of her debut album and landing the boyfriend she always wanted gave way to media coverage of her weight, family ...Show more
Cadence by Eddie Ayres
34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Memoir, intercontinental cycling adventure, music guide - Cadence is the debut book by ABC Classic FM's Emma Ayres. Accompanied by Vita, her steadfast bicycle, and her violin, Aurelia, Emma cycles her way from England to Hong Kong. But this is also a journey through the keys - through the music that has ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
16.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The full story of Taylor Swift's stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who's taking over the world. A small-town girl with an incredible talent, and the strength to realise her dream, Taylor has grown into an award-winning, chart-topping artist and wo ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In this powerful, gripping and brutal ...Show more
Secrets of a Webcam Girl: A Memoir by Annabelle T. Baxter
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
From video vixen to happy endings - one woman reveals all! How far would you go to pay the bills? Secrets of a Webcam Girl is the true story of a woman's transition from business suit to birthday suit as a way to solve mounting financial problems.
Madness: a Memoir by Kate Richards
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize. It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you migh ...Show more
Montebello: A Memoir by Robert Drewe
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.' In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even tod ...Show more
Cabin Fever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess by Mandy Smith
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Mandy Smith spent twelve years strutting down the aisles as one of Richard Branson's sexy and sassy flight attendants, and in Cabin Fever she tells the good, the bad and the downright naughty tales of life in the air. From dealing with projectile vomit and celebrity tantrums to sipping Manhattans and sh ...Show more
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Ag ...Show more