Biography & Autobiography from Bong Bong Books

2015. Softcover. Good Condition. This powerful, unforgettable and uplifting story is one part wrenching family memoir, and one part inspirational journey towards healing and forgiveness - but most of all, it's an unputdownable journey through one family's tragedy and how they refused to let it define them. On the day of Rebecca Poulson's 33rd birthday,… Read more about this item

Hachette, Sydney, 2017. Edition Unstated. Good Condition. An inspiring true story of resilience, tenacity and a promise that fuelled one woman's fight for life.Four days after her fiftieth birthday celebrations, Julie Randall suffered a very sudden and severe seizure at work. Out of the blue she went from a fit, healthy, fun-loving wife and mother… Read more about this item

Self published, Australia, 2010. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. ...Rick's story describes the horrors of his first internment camp where unfriendly & often drunk guards added to the fear & misery, then relief of being shipped along with other POW's on the former cunard luxury liner Queen Mary to Australia, the far more gagreeable conditions… Read more about this item

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. The behind-the-scenes story of a rock 'n' roll legend. An elemental force present at the creation of Australian rock 'n' roll, Johnny O'Keefe converted incredible drive, a tremendous flair for showmanship and a comic spirit into status as this country's first rock star, and, two… Read more about this item

Craftsman House, Australia, 1990. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) was one of the most revered artists in Australia & produced some of the most distinguished landscape paintings ever seen in this country.... Size: 250mm - 350mm. 176 pages. Remnants of old price label on the rear cover.. Heavy foxing front/rear pages, but… Read more about this item

Random House, Australia, 2003. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. This book is not merely a reflection of a distinguished legal career from one of Australia's most respected & longest-serving barristers, but an overview of how society, & the law have changed over the last five decades." Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm-240mm. 310 pages. Remnants of old… Read more about this item

Lester-Townsend Publishing, Sydney, 1989. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Fair Condition. George Daldry was a fitness phenomenon. He has been teaching health & fitness for over 30 years & is living proof that his methods work. It's a simple plan that has led some of Australia's sporting champions, men & women of business & politicians to believe… Read more about this item

SBS (Random House), Sydney, 2002. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. A Fascinating account of a great sporting life and an insider's look at the byzantine world of soccer politics. The essential Australian story of the World Game - Bob Carr Johnny Warren received an MBE (1973), ASM (2000) Centenary Medal (2001), OAM (2003) and the… Read more about this item

2020. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bitsPaul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a… Read more about this item

Harper Collins, Australia, 2001. Later Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good Condition. Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was doing that work I used to think that it didn't matter if I died, because without freedom there was no point in living." - Nancy Wake Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm-250mm. 310 pages. Covers… Read more about this item

Wiley, United States, 2007. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. The definitive biography of history's most fearsome and famous pirate Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his… Read more about this item

2014. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. The compelling and inspirational story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes, a remarkable Australian.Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful people, but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't.… Read more about this item

2005. Softcover. Good Condition. In the early twentieth century, a young Australian woman became one of the highest paid and most adored Hollywood and vaudeville stars of the day. Her name was Annette Kellerman.Born into a musical family in suburban Sydney in 1886, Annette's first love was performing. Yet when she took up swimming to… Read more about this item

Victory Books, Melbourne, 2010. As Stated In The Title. Softcover. Good Condition. Mick Gatto. Gambler. Underworld veteran. Melbourne gangland survivor. Mick Gatto in his bestselling autobiography finally reveals the man behind the headlines. Gatto's unique position - of knowing all the players in the Gangland Wars but not being involved in drug trafficking - gave… Read more about this item

Hachette, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Lisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things done and making things happen. As a child growing up in country Queensland, she dreamed of a big life. Working as a foreign correspondent gave her that, but italso meant confronting the worst that humanity can… Read more about this item

Hachette, Sydney, 2019. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Football is the world game. It unites. At a grassroots level it creates communities and, in 2019, those communities helped save the life of one of its own.In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising young player on Bahrain's national football team when he was arrested for attacking… Read more about this item

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. The modern-day, real-life fairy tale of the young Australian commoner who became the Crown Princess of Denmark is detailed in this definitive biography. When Mary Donaldson walked into the Slip Inn restaurant in Sydney on the first Saturday of the 2000 Olympic Games, she met… Read more about this item

New Holland, Sydney, 2000. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. 'An immigrant's triumph...Victor Smorgon, industrial empire-builder & philanthropist. A well-told story of this larger-than-life Australian.' - The Hon. Bob Hawke, AC Size: 180mm - 250mm. 318 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Edges have a few marks.… Read more about this item

Hachette, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea.Scrambling into a longboat, Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North… Read more about this item

Ironbark Press, Randwick, 1992. Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Bill Jenkings was Australia's foremost crime reporter for almost half a century. Known by his peers as "Ace" he consistently beat his rivals to major stories and broke many of the biggest, including the Bogle/Chandler mystery, the Graeme Thorne kidnap case and the Wanda Beach… Read more about this item