Category: Memoirs
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
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Dave Glasheen’s life began spiralling out of control after he lost his family’s vast fortune in the stock market crash of 1987. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the ...Show more
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's life begins in small town Australia - Maitland to be precise - but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cas ...Show more
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
A memoir of iconic Australian singer and performer John Paul Young. John Paul Young is one of the most iconic artist in Australian music's history, with over four million world wide album sales and numerous awards which garnered him an induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2009. Sharing not only music ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
The inspirational story of Jackie Gillies - star of The Real Housewives of Melbourne and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - and one of Australia's most-sought after psychic mediums Sassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim. Well know ...Show more
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful, inspiring memoir of life under fire and the battle back from the brink by a man who has seen conflict around the world Grant Edwards was once an elite athlete, Olympics qualifier and Australia's strongest man. His Guinness Book of Records feats of strength were acclaimed internationally, a ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admired ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
More than thirty years ago, Terry Dartnall turned up in author Wendy Dartnall's life holding a bottle of cheap port. He had looked around the door of a friend's living room, apologising for his lateness, and she felt something happen to time. Love at first sight was something Wendy had only heard about ...Show more
Category: Memoirs
As a kid, Bernie Shakeshaft's mischievous and reckless behaviour led him to became known as the wild one of his devout Catholic family. It isn't surprising that his path led him to the Northern Territory, a place where people often go to either lose themselves or find themselves. Bernie, a searcher for ...Show more
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A circle of pine trees, a sagging wire fence, and a roof that was once painted red. 'There it is,' said Dad. In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Scottish-born Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish ...Show more
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