Outlandish Knight by Minoo Dinshaw
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In his enormously long life (he was born in 1903 and died in 2000), Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His friendships, cur ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...I got a joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' I said to the Poet. In August 2014, Jenny Diski was dia ...Show more
A Handbook for My Lover by Rosalyn D'Mello; Andy Warren (Designed by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Guised as an instructive manual, A Handbook For My Lover chronicles six years in the life of an unconventional affair between a young writer and her lover, a photographer twice her age. This beautifully written epistle documents the young woman's demands and desires, her fantasies and eccentricities as ...Show more
All Things Strange and Wonderful by Dr Reb
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As a newly graduated vet Dr. Reb signed up for a two-year stint with the Peace Corp Volunteers, and found himself in Malawi. A national fuel shortage meant no delivery of supplies, and he had to improvise at every turn. Then he was introduced to a local witch doctor, Dr. Mzimba, and two very sick puppie ...Show more
Montebello by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Montebello continues where Robert Drewe's much-loved memoir The Shark Net left off, taking us into his mature years. In the aftermath of events, both man-made and natural, that have left a permanent mark on the landscape and psyche of Western Australia - the British nuclear tests in the Montebello Islan ...Show more
The Buy Side by Turney Duff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The Buy Side is Turney Duff's high-adrenaline journey through the trading underworld, as well as a searing look at an after-hours Wall Street culture where sex and drugs are the quid pro quo and a billion isn't enough. In the mid-2000's, Turney Duff was, to all appearances, the very picture of American ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Susan Duncan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: General Adult
The third and final memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus u the emotional freedo ...Show more
My Year Without Matches by Claire Dunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In the tradition of Wild and Tracks, one woman's story of how she left the city and found her soul. Disillusioned and burnt out by her job, Claire Dunn quits a comfortable life to spend a year off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Her new forest home swings between ally and enemy as reality - a ...Show more
My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild by Dunn Claire
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Disillusioned and burnt out by life as a city 'greenocrat', Claire Dunn quit her job, her partner and her comfortable life to embark on a year-long wilderness survival skills program on the mid north coast of NSW. Her new forest home became both ally and enemy as reality, and not just the voracious inse ...Show more
Yours for Eternity - A Love Story on Death Row by Damien Echols; Lorri Davis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row. An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when he was wr ...Show more
Too Afraid to Cry by Eckermann Ali Cobby
$28.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Too Afraid to Cry is a memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. It is the story of a peo ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more