Southern Discomfort by Tena Clarke
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
In the bestselling tradition of The Help comes a powerful and moving memoir about a white girl coming of age in the South in the 1960s and the black woman who inspired her to forge her own path. Tena Clark was born in 1953 in a tiny Mississippi town close to the Alabama border, where the legacy of slav ...Show more
Miss Shirley Bassey by John L. Williams
6.99 AUD
34.95 (80% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: very good
In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from an exploitative revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest star ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
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32.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: good
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky - A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia by Robert Carmichael
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Memoirs of a Showgirl : From Brisvegas to Paris by Shay Stafford
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35.00 (80% off)
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Shayleen Ann Stafford was the middle child sandwiched between two sporting brothers. Her dad was a former rugby player and a welder by trade, her Mum was a nurse. No one called her by her first name, to family and friends she was always Shay. Her early life was a combination of swimming, sport and backy ...Show more
Grace & Style by Grace Helbig
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29.99 (66% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
It's clear to see I'm a style icon; remember, you can't spell icon without 'con'.My goal in this book isn't to tell anyone how they should dress or how they should do their hair or makeup or even what poop bags to purchase.Trust me, I'm not stylish. I'm self-aware. I'm not polished, I'm perceptive. I'm ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
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34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
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32.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsi ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
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34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than ...Show more
Home Work: A Memoir of My Years in Hollywood (HB) by Julie Andrews
14.99 AUD
49.99 (70% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
9.99 AUD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: near fine
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more