Item category 1: Biographies & Memoirs

Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid poverty to becoming one of the biggest names in comedy began with a crime: his birth. Born to a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison, Trevor was kept indoors for most of his early ...

In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being.

"He taught me everything: how to dress, how to walk, how to apply make-up and wear my hair, how to behave, how to return his love - his way. Over the years, he became my father, husband, and very nearly God..."

Biography of the Irish Fenian convict who escaped to America from WA in 1869 and became a journalist and editor in Britain.

Memoir of Hemingway as a young man in Paris.

Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, and came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the most newsworthy cases in recent history. He has defended John Stonehouse, Cynthia Payne, Salman Rushdie, Kate Ad...

2nd part of autobiographical trilogy; moves on from her childhood in Townsville to the big wide world of Sydney during the 70s including her major period of activism in Aboriginal politics, for which she is most remembered today.

Traveling full circle to attend her dying father, Brooks stumbles on the old letters in her parents' basement. She embarks on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends, and to retrieve her own lost memories of the shy Sydney girl who wrote to them. One by one, she finds men and women whose li...

Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar: deaf, wild disturbed, stupid insane... She lived within herself, her own world her foreground, ours a background she only visited. Isolated from her self and from the outside world, Donna was, in her words, a Nobody Nowhere. She swung vi...

The sequel to 'Nobody Nowhere', this book takes us deeper into Donna Williams' journey into the world. Her war against it is finally over, but the pieces of her life lie scattered around her. We travel with her in her breakthoughs in working with autistic children and other adults like herself, a...

Pictorial of Cathy Freeman with unusual sports photos in that they are not glossy, but sepid-toned and matte-finished. Minimal text.

Harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family to love.

The stories of stockman Tex Camfoo and his wife Nelly brim with the realities of outback life and highlight the ambiguous social position of Aborigines in the Northern Territory this century. They provide an insight into race relations and give personal perspective on culture, religion and politi...

On November 7, 1993 Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal for, is the story of her illness, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and death. Breathtakingly hones about the factors she feels contributed to her cancer, Woodman also explains how she drew upon...

This new biography focuses on the man himself. Rather than the political economic and engineering aspects of his life.

History of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and the Esplanade Hotel as well as Harpers story.

Interviews with 15 rock icons including Bowie, Clapton, Costello, Dylan, the Stones and the Sex Pistols.