Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller o ...Show more
Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she has written a deeply persona ...Show more
My Story by Schapelle Corby; Kathryn Bonella (As told to)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The no. 1 bestselling memoir, co-written by Schapelle Corby and Kathryn Bonella, the author of Hotel Kerobokan and Snowing in Bali.Schapelle's story is like no other - a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour.It was meant to be a two-wee ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Jessie Stephens went through a difficult breakup, she started to look for books or stories that would reflect her experience and perhaps give her some hope for the future. There were plenty of guide books in the '101 tips to cure a broken heart' vein, but what Jessie wanted were stories. She wanted ...Show more
The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays by C J Hauser
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funn ...Show more
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson by Alison Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: BEFORE & AFTER
Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to ...Show more
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, ...Show more
Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you; it's that I am worse. I am an addict-addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love, and fame. This is the age of addiction, a condition so endemic, so all-encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an ext ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more