Item category 1: Biographies & Memoirs

In this first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory th...

Successful romance author Gaia Anders has a secret: anything she dreams at night is magically written into her novels. After a lonely childhood in foster care, her dream life is the only one she trusts. Gaia's waking life just can't compare -- until she gets caught in one utterly surprising, craz...

This is the first of four books by Rick Fenny. It is the first era of four eras of his life punctuated by four red kelpie dogs. This story is about his life growing up, firstly on a small farm and orchard in the Hills region on the outskirts of Perth, and later, with his dog Pip, in Albany Wester...

In this idyllic pastoral setting, unencumbered by the callous father who so quickly abandoned his family responsibilities, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the centre of his world as she struggles to raise a growing family against the backdrop of the Great War. The sophisticated adult author's ret...

Michael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. But Cannon, the child and grandchild of important figures in Australian independent journalism, develope...

A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Birmingham to Edwardian Australia, and...

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.

The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's life -- set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II -- covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; and his muses Marie-Thérèse, Dora Maar, and Françoise Gil...

On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima - bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old. "Soldier Boy" is Jim's extraordinary true story, the story of a young and enthusiastic school boy who became Australia's youngest known Anzac....