Biography Audio Books
Well Done Those Men Memoirs Of A Vietnam Veteran Unabridged Audio
$19.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
In an intensely personal account, Barry Heard explains how as a conscript he was was of the many young men sent off to Vietnam for a year, completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact of what they wou... Buy or find out more →
Home Of The Blizzard Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
The Home of the Blizzard is a tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Mawson's own account of his years spent in Antarctica, travelling in... Buy or find out more →
Mailman Of The Birdsville Track Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
The Birdsville Track is one of the best known and loneliest tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling the searing heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns. He made the run every fortnigh... Buy or find out more →
Last Tango In Toulouse Unabridged Audio
$34.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
The year of her fiftieth birthday, Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. Her book about these experiences, Au Revoir, struck a chord with tens of thousands of r... Buy or find out more →
Unpolished Gem Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
7 DISCS. Running time: 8 hours. This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the ... Buy or find out more →
True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
A masterpiece not only of rock journalism but of harrowing social history as well. Onstage and off, the Stones are portrayed up-close and the music, talk, drugs and sex are all captured in detail. Stanley Booth, a member... Buy or find out more →
Her Fathers Daughter Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible thread... Buy or find out more →
Rock Chicks Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
This book profiles the hottest rock 'n roll women, spanning the 1960s to current times -- from Janis Joplin, Suzi Quatro and Chrissie Hynde to Courtney Love and Pink. With perceptive biographies and in-depth music critiq... Buy or find out more →
Way My Father Tells It Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
The Way My Father Tells is a story of the joys and sorrows of childhood and adolescence, of falling in love, going to war and returning to re-establish a family life.It is fi lled with wry charm and self-effacing humour ... Buy or find out more →
How To Make Gravy (Audio CD)
$59.95 – Compact disc /
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller, and here, using his lyrics as starting points, he reads stories of his life and his songs, including 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talk... Buy or find out more →
Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter (Audio CD)
$45.00$19.95 – Compact disc / Hachette Digital
The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life and certainly not his. In essence, it is a love story and as with many love stori... Buy or find out more →
Arise Sir Jamie Oliver Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Jamie rose from humble pastry chef to television star by catching the eye of producers during a documentary about the River Café, where he was working at the time. The offers came flooding in, and so the Naked Chef was b... Buy or find out more →
Mawson Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Our Queen Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
History has known no monarch like her.She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together and lived longer than any of them. She has known more historic figures than anyone alive#151;from Churchill to Mandel... Buy or find out more →
Lady Gaga Queen Of Pop Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
A detailed account of Gaga's rise to fame, from her early life when she was known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, through to her super-stardom. It begins with her birth in 1986, covers her time at Convent of the S... Buy or find out more →
Heston Blumenthal Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is a gastronomic alchemist who sees the kitchen as a laboratory where he loves to experimentwith new ways to tantalizediners'taste buds. The story of his life is every bit as colorful and... Buy or find out more →
Cattle King Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King. At the age of 13 Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse deal... Buy or find out more →
Road To Nowhere Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
This book is Chopper's redemption. It is the real story of the man, the criminal and the prisoner, told with black humour and surprising insight. "This book is about my journey through the Australian prison system. You'l... Buy or find out more →
Man Who Left Too Soon
$49.95 – Compact disc / Abc Audio
Stieg Larrson's three novels are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written, and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larrson was not able to witness their international success. Since he died in 2004 t... Buy or find out more →
One Crowded Hour Combat Cameraman Neil Davis Unabridged Audio
$44.95 – Compact disc / Abc Audio
The bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest cine-cameramen and an extraordinary Australian. Buy or find out more →
Ten Hail Marys Unabridged Audio
$52.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
UNABRIDGED AUDIO (8 X CD - 10hrs approximately)In Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth vividly recounts the first seventeen years of her life in Sydneys slums and suburbs and in rural New South Wales. Abandoned by her mother as ... Buy or find out more →
Reading By Moonlight Unabridged Audio
$44.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
The first time Brenda Walker packed her bag to go into hospital, she wondered which book to take with her. Her life had been built around reading and writing. Now she was being treated for breast cancer. Books had always... Buy or find out more →
No Time For Fear Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Paul de Gelder lost his right arm and leg to a violent shark attack in Sydney Harbour when he was going about his work as a Navy clearance diver in February 2009. He was lucky to survive, let alone resume work as a diver... Buy or find out more →
Childrens House Of Belsen Unabridged Audio 8 Cd
$29.95 – Compact disc /
An important, moving and beautifully written book. Hetty's family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers wer... Buy or find out more →
Ghost At The Wedding Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
In 1914, in the canefields of northern New South Wales, the young men couldn't wait to set off for the adventure of war. The women coped as best as they could, raised the children, lived in fear of being the next to rece... Buy or find out more →
Dead Man Running An Insiders Story Of One Of The Most Fearedmotorcycle Gangs The Bandidos Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
An insider's story of one of the world's most feared motorcycle gangs. We are the people our parents warned us about' is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs. For ten years, S... Buy or find out more →
Unbearable Lightness Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
From actress Portia de Rossi, a revelatory and searing account of the years she spent secretly suffering from anorexia and bulimia, all while living under the glare of Hollywood’s bright lights.
“I didn’t decide to bec... Buy or find out more →
Dinner With Mugabe Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimb...
Bird Cloud Unabridged Audio
$38.95 – Compact disc / Simon & Schuster
Part family history, part naturalist’s journal—and her first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years— Bird Cloud is Annie Proulx’s vivid chronicle of building a house on a spectacularly beautiful piece of land in Wy... Buy or find out more →
Au Revoir Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Living the good life in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales with her husband, four grown-up children and four (and counting) grandchildren, Mary Moody's life was full. The only thing missing was time for herself, a cha... Buy or find out more →
Skullduggery Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
From the pitch to the commentary box, Kerry 'Skull' O'Keeffe has covered Australian cricket from every angle for more than thirty years. His distinctive laugh, his self-deprecating humour and his incisive opinions have m... Buy or find out more →
Almost French Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans f... Buy or find out more →
Bob Dylan In America Unabridged Audio
$55.95 – Compact disc / Random House Audio
Sean Wilentz discovered Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village. Now, almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion ... Buy or find out more →
Hilliker Curse My Pursuit Of Women Unabridged Audio
$48.95 – Compact disc / Random House Audio
From "one of the great American writers of our time" "(Los Angeles Times Book Review)" comes a raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. He unsparingly describes his shattered childho... Buy or find out more →
I Can Jump Puddles Unabridged Audio
$29.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside earl... Buy or find out more →
Hospital By The River Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the ... Buy or find out more →
Professor And The Madman A Tale Of Murder Insanity And The Making Of The Oxford English Dictionary Unabridged Audio
$19.95 – Compact disc / Harper Collins
Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a. [f. L. mystérium Mysteryi + ous.
Cf. F. mystérieux.]
1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden from
human knowledge or understanding; impossible or difficult to
expla... Buy or find out more →
From Here To There Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Somehow, I convinced myself it was a good idea. Somehow, I convinced myself that it was do-able. Now I shake my head...We drove through the Gobi desert in Mongolia in a snowstorm, avoided an Iranian sedan doing cartwheel... Buy or find out more →
Living History Audio
$45.00 – Compact disc / Hachette Digital
In Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton writes with candor, humor and passion about coming of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America and about the White House years. She tells the story ... Buy or find out more →
Gallipoli Our Last Man Standing The Extraordinary Life Of Alec Campbell Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
With Alec Campbell's death, a door has closed to which no one has the key. Australia has lost the last direct link to one of the nation's most significant events and to a breed of Australians who have become larger than ... Buy or find out more →
Trains And Boats And Planes A Radio Journey Unabridged Audio
$29.95 – Compact disc /
Trains and Boats and Planes takes the listener on a humorous, personal travel journey. It begins with Bryan's earliest years when he was inspired to travel by the transient, fleeting, impermanent images that life in a po... Buy or find out more →
Mao's Last Dancer (Audio CD)
$34.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
This is the true story of how, by the thinnest thread of a chance, one moment in time changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond imagination. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet ... Buy or find out more →
Winning Is Not Enough Audio
$35.00 – Compact disc / Hachette Digital
Kindness Of Strangers Audio
$32.99 – Compact disc / Hachette Digital
Kate Adie's story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was 'a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world... Buy or find out more →
Back From The Brink
$44.95 – Compact disc /
For 200 years, our farmers have been using methods developed in Europe which, in Australia, have wreaked havoc. With a lifetime's experience of working on the land, Peter Andrews has seen the landscape change. He has exp... Buy or find out more →
Scar Tissue Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures
Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knucklehea... Buy or find out more →
Never Say Die (Audio CD)
$49.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
It was a cruel twist of fate: in November 2006 Chris O′Brien‚ one of the country′s leading head and neck cancer surgeons‚ was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme‚ an aggressive and almost inevitably lethal form of bra... Buy or find out more →
Charles Kingsford Smith
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is one of Australias most loved heroes. In an action-packed life, the indomitable Smithy went from fighting as a soldier among the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front, to taking to the ... Buy or find out more →
Exacting Heart The Story Of Hephzibah Menuhin Unabridged Audio
$54.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
10 DISCS. Running time: 11.5 hours. Born in 1920 in San Francisco Hephzibah Menuhin was, like her world-renowned violinist brother Yehudi, a child prodigy. She had a musical gift most people only dream of. Her refusal to... Buy or find out more →
Bring On The Empty Horses Audio
$35.00 – Compact disc / Hachette Digital
David Niven is remembered as one of Britain's best-loved actors. The archetypal English gentleman, he starred in over ninety films. He is also one of Hollywood's finest chroniclers.In this second volume, David Niven turn... Buy or find out more →
Somme Mud
$69.95 – Compact disc /
Its the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and some of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and cur... Buy or find out more →
Shark Net
$44.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Winner of the 2000 WA Premier's non-fiction book award.
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, t... Buy or find out more →
The Lucy Family Alphabet
$34.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Narrated by the author, the eagerly anticipated audio edition of one of the most popular books of the year.
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment impl... Buy or find out more →
Eat Pray Love (Audio CD)
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Narrated by the author.
The international bestselling non-fiction title. Over 5 million copies sold worldwide and more than 30 translation rights deals concluded.
Film forthcoming, with Julia Roberts to play the leading ... Buy or find out more →
Barack Obama The Movement For Change Audio
$34.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Every now and again America confronts its demons, walks away from deep internal division, and strives towards justice.Barack Obama: The Movement for Change tells the story of a visionary leader who refuses to be limited ... Buy or find out more →
Romulus My Father Unabridged Audio
$18.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to over... Buy or find out more →
Rugmaker Of Mazar E Sharif Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
7 DISCS. Running time: 7.75 hours. THE RUGMAKER OF MAZAR-E-SHARIF traces an Afghani refugee's extraordinary journey - from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan, to his forced exile af... Buy or find out more →
Unpolished Gem (Unabridged Audio)
$49.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream Asian style. Ar... Buy or find out more →
The Life And Works Of Chopin (Audio)
$34.95 – Compact disc / Naxos Audio Books
In 2010, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Chopin is celebrated. Regarded as one of the most mesmerising performers of his day, Frdric Chopin, the pianist-composer, lives on in his music - his waltzes, mazurkas, etud... Buy or find out more →
Piano Lessons Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. (7 X CD) Buy or find out more →
The Making Of Julia Gillard (Unabridged Audio CD)
$49.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
In this immensely readable book, acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent draws on interviews with Gillard's friends and foes - and with Gillard herself. (9 X CD)
From prize-winning biographer Jacqueline Kent comes the first... Buy or find out more →
Infiltration The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafiaunabridged Audio
$54.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
For two years police detective Colin McLaren disappears off the face of the earth, surfacing in Griffith as a dodgy art dealer.and talks his way into the Mafia. (10 X CD) Buy or find out more →
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
4 DISCS. Running time: 4.25 hours.This is the true account of Doris Pilkington Garimara's mother Molly, made legendary by the film RABBIT-PROOF FENCE. In 1931 Molly led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre... Buy or find out more →
Screw It Lets Do It Unabridged Audio
$34.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
"Screw It, Let's Do It" is one of Richard's favourite sayings. In the book of the same name he reveals the lessons that have helped him through his business and personal life, like believing it can be done and that if ot... Buy or find out more →
Power Trip The Political Journey Of Kevin Rudd Unabridged Audio
$16.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tradegy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transforma... Buy or find out more →
Mary Mackillop Unveiled Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Aiming to make this compelling story of church politics and Christian service available to all, Lesley O'Brien presents a moving account of the life and times of Mary MacKillop, Australia's first saint. The only biograph... Buy or find out more →
Moveable Feast Restored Edition Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Simon & Schuster
Published for the first time as Ernest Hemingway intended, one of the great writer’s most beloved and enduring works: his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s.
Published posthumously in 1964,A M... Buy or find out more →
Desert Queen The Many Lives And Loves Of Daisy Bates Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
In the 1890s, when a woman's role was seen as marrying well and raising a family, Daisy Bates reinvented herself from humble governess to heiress-traveller and 'woman of science'. She would become one of the best-known a... Buy or find out more →
Nancy Wake Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horr... Buy or find out more →
I Am Melba (Unabridged Audio)
$58.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. As a young wife and mother on the Queensland cane-fields, she longed desperately for glamour and excitement. Travelling to Lond... Buy or find out more →
Bad Hair Days (Unabridged Audio CD)
$47.95 – Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio
Pamela Bone was a prominent newspaper journalist and columnist when in 2004 she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow that can be treated but not cured. Dry-eyed, but often darkly humorous, Bad... Buy or find out more →
Julie and Julia (Unabridged Audio CD)
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few ite... Buy or find out more →
You Better Not Cry: unabridged audio
$47.95 – Compact disc / Macmillan
You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hango... Buy or find out more →
Cleaving A Story Of Marriage Meat And Obsession Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia
Child'sMastering the Art of French Cookingwas the craziest
thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in
her new memoir, CLEAVING.
Her marriage cha... Buy or find out more →
Driving Like Crazy Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
P.J. O'Rourke, 'the funniest writer in America', harbours a guilty pleasure - ever since growing up the son of a car dealer in Ohio, her has been crazy about cars. In Driving Like Crazy, he reveals in his love for ... Buy or find out more →
Soldiers Without Borders Unabridged Audio
$49.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
'Jones knew the score with "deniable" operations that were sanctioned secretly at the highest levels. If they turned to custard and the cover was blown, the powers-that-be would simply deny everything and disown all invo... Buy or find out more →
Mary Mackillop No Plaster Saint Unabridged Audio
$24.95 – Compact disc /
Claire Dunne's No Plaster Saint is the dramatic story of Mary MacKillop, Australia's first saint. In the 1860's Mary MacKillop co-founded Australia's first religious order, the Sisters of St. Joseph, dedicated to the edu... Buy or find out more →