The New Ringer by Roland Breckwoldt
Category: Biography
A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever 'A beautifully written - yet stunningly different - memoir of a young misfit. Absolutely loved it. - Ray Martin 'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by fo ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir HB by Grace Tame
Category: Biography
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find he ...Show more
Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy by Shaun Micallef
Category: Biography
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself – an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to unexpected places. Comedy has been Shaun’s escape, his guiding light, his refuge, his passport, his lifebuoy ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood by Alexandra Collier
Category: Biography
Alexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved. But when she woke up to a ravenous hunger to have a baby that her partner didn't share, she had to make a choice between love or a future family. She chose family, which catapulted her life ba ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
Category: Biography
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
Neglected: Scared, Hungry and Alone, Jamey Craves Affection by Cathy Glass
Category: Biography
Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services had no choice after a neighbour reported Jamey had been left alone all night while his mother went out partying. Scared, hungry and withdrawn, Jamey has spent so much time in ...Show more
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Category: Biography
The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and bec ...Show more
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten
Category: Biography
"In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten’s mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After eventually discovering the grandparents she loved dearly ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
The Hospital by the River by Catherine Hamlin, John Little
Category: Biography
The awe-inspiring story of the life and mission of Dr. Catherine Hamlin who, with her husband Reg, established what has been heralded as one the most incredible medical programs in the modern world. The Hamlins, both Christians, dedicated their lives to women suffering the catastrophic effects of obstru ...Show more
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
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 is ...Show more