Cells: Memories for my mother by Gavin McCrea
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' and she says, 'What again?' and I say, 'Town is shut down,' and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me li ...Show more
Traffic - Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
"Engrossing and suspenseful." -The New York Times"Expertly pulls readers in." -The Guardian "Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment." - Financial TimesThe origin story of the Age of Disinformation- the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and N ...Show more
Cynthia Nolan: A Biography by M. E. McGuire
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This biography studies the making of writer and artist's wife Cynthia Nolan, born Violet Cynthia Reed. She was almost forty when she married Sidney Nolan and consigned her past to obscurity. It tracks this brave, elusive figure through historical sources, letters, her novels, the recollections of friend ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Elizabeth Gilbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. Newly divorced journalist Elizabet ...Show more
In My Blood by Cheryl Koenig
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An extraordinary life, from ordinary beginnings. Optimism, resilience, audacity, hope, surviving daily challenges for themselves and those they love; carers embody all of these qualities. Cheryl Koenig's fifth book, a memoir, deals with all those human qualities necessary to not only survive a life-thre ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, t ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Second Chance: The heartwarming true story of a neglected horse who became a Mounted Police hero by Diana Thurgood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A life-affirming true story of kindness, courage and one horse's extraordinary journey from a derelict paddock to the esteemed stables of the Mounted Police. On a hot summer's day in Northern New South Wales, Mounted Police officer Tiffany spotted an advertisement for a horse in the local paper - a Cly ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Fatherhood: Stories about being a dad by William McInnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
William McInnes, one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart. Fatherhood is about family, about memories of his father and the memories he's creating as a dad himself, with his own son and daughter. Warm, witty and nostalgic, these tales are ...Show more