Behind a Velvet Light Trap is the new autobiography of veteran film producer Anthony Buckley
A fascinating autobiography by one of Australia’s most experienced film producers; Anthony (Tony) Buckley takes the reader behind the scenes of Australian film and television. Covering a vast period of our modern history he introduces us to the characters he has [...]

My Life Outside the Ring is the new autobiography from one time WWF champion Hulk Hoganhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html
Hulk Hogan, born Terry Bollea, burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late seventies and went on to become a world wrestling champion many times over. From humble beginnings, this giant of a man escaped a pre-ordained life of [...]

Going Rogue: An American Life is controversial former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s autobiography.
On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world. As chief executive of America’s largest state, she had [...]

Ray: Stories of My Life is the autobiography of the most famous face (and hair) on Australian television – Ray Martin
Ray Martin needs no introduction. Well known as the face of the Midday Show, A Current Affair, 60 Minutes, Carols by Candlelight… If you trust anyone on Australian television, you trust Ray Martin.

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Halfway to Hollywood is the follow on from the first installment of the very popular and likable member of the Monty Python team Michael Palin.
This second volume of Michael Palin’s enthralling diaries covers the 1980s, when the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. They played their final performance together [...]

In one of the more explosive biographies of the year – Andre Agassi opens up about drugs, tennis and fame in his new book Open – An Autobiography. Released on November 11, this is sure to be a hot seller this Christmas.
Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds [...]

An Education – Lynn Barber

Posted on August 21st, 2009 by Jarvis in Biography, Non-Fiction

An Education is UK author and journalist Lynn Barber’s autobiography, soon to be released as a feature film by Nick Hornsby in October.
1960: A stranger in a sports car offers a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl a lift. She accepts. This was the beginning of the two most bizarre years of Lynn Barber’s life. For the stranger charmed [...]

Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home From the Moon is second man on the moon Buzz Aldrin’s autobiography of a hero of the Moon landings: both an adventure story and a searing memoir.
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human – minutes after Neil Armstrong – to set foot on a celestial body other [...]

Parky: My Autobiography is Micheal Parkinson’s long-awaited autobiography of ‘the storyteller’s storyteller’.

From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson’s starry career spans over four decades. Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining [...]

Adam Gilchrist is set to launch his new book – True Colours: My Life this week and the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting it contains some explosive accusations against the Indians. 
“Former Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist is set to further inflame tensions between the two most powerful cricketing nations by questioning India’s sportsmanship – singling [...]

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