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Love Clancy: A Dog's Letters Home, Edited and Debated by Richard Glover by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They a ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more
Greenlights (PB) by Matthew McConaughey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clue ...Show more
Sunshine - The Diary of a Lap Dancer by Samantha C. Ross
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
There are a lot of Ambers in the stripping world. And Aprils and Summers, and Skys and Rains. There are quite a few gems: Sapphires, Diamonds, Rubies and even an Amethyst. And exotic creatures: Tigers, Cheetahs, Phoenixes and Kitties. Plenty of weather conditions, like Misty, Stormy and Cloudy. There ar ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Am ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Christmas Tales by William McInnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Tis the season to be jolly! One of Australia's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of stories about everyone's favourite family holiday. I can't help it if I'm a boring conservative dag, but I love Christmas, always have and hopefully always will. Whatever brand of faith you fly under, ev ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$34.99 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective gl ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
THE NEW YORK TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHESUNDAY TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York TimesAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s training as a neur ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$54.99 AUD
$65.00 (15% off)
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more