Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Biography
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
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Category: Biography
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Me ...Show more
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
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Category: Biography
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
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Category: Biography
Father Dreg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you've ever met-a man who lounges in boxer shorts and loves action movies. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When a crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their worlds collide. I ...Show more
Albanese: Telling It Straight by Karen Middleton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for a decade. For the previous decade he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is th ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
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Category: Biography
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind by Stephen Johnson
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Category: Biography
A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder. BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraord ...Show more
Who Does that Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag by Craig Seligman
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Category: Biography
An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way ...Show more
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton
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Category: Biography
"From Borrower to wizard, Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame saw him catapulted into the limelight aged just twelve when he landed the iconic role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Speaking with candour and his own trademark humour, Tom shares his experie ...Show more
The Pulling by Adele Dumont
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Category: Biography
When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania - compulsive hair-pulling - it makes sense of ...Show more
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
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Category: Biography
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sig ...Show more
From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail by Anthony Sharwood
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Category: Biography
The incredible, inspiring story of a solo journey through Australia's toughest and most beautiful hiking trail - the Australian Alps Walking Track - for fans of INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer or Cheryl Strayed's WILD and anyone who dreams of iconic wilderness walks. At the start of the hellish, fiery Au ...Show more