Never Grow Up
The memoir of the action legend who once called Canberra home.
Here is a Canberra connection almost nobody sees coming: before he was the biggest action star on earth, Jackie Chan spent part of his young life in Canberra, where his parents worked and he briefly settled. Never Grow Up is his candid, often astonishing memoir — the brutal training, the death-defying stunts, the failures and reinventions behind a half-century career. For the film buff, the martial-arts fan, or the reader who loves a rags-to-superstardom story, it is a hugely entertaining gift, with the added delight of an unlikely capital cameo. Proof that Canberra's alumni reach a lot further than Parliament House — and a reminder that you never quite know who once lived a few suburbs over.
- Jackie Chan's candid, surprising autobiography
- The global superstar who spent formative years in Canberra
- Decades of stunts, films and hard-won life lessons
- A crowd-pleasing gift with an unlikely local link