In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession- that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although La ...Show more
Bumper: The Life and times of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history. Frank 'Bumper' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper' ...Show more
Concussion - Film tie-in by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is the story of one man's fight against a multibillion dollar colossus. A man who stood up for what was right, whatever the cost. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the body on the slab in front of him would change his life, and ultimately change the world. The body belonge ...Show more
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Laurie Penny
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018'A blast, in all senses' Financial TimesIncludes a new preface and extra essaysSmart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election ...Show more
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
It's the difference between surviving life and living life. It's the difference between taking a shower and teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair. Jenny Lawson - aka The Bloggess - returns with the follow-up to her bestselling memoir Let's Pretend This Never Happened, recounting stories f ...Show more
Passing Clouds - A Winemaker's Journey by Graeme Leith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Electrician, Graeme Leith joined Melbourne's theatre collective at Carton's famously innovative Pram Factory Theatre and said 'let there be light'. And there was; Graham Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Max Gillies and many others produced over 140 new Australian plays in ten years.
To Begin To Know - Walking in the shadows of my father by David Leser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
More than a decade ago, journalist David Leser started writing a biography of his famous father, legendary magazine publisher, Bernard Leser. But David couldn't finish the project because he didn't want to employ his investigative and forensic feature writer's skills to unmask his father - to do so seem ...Show more
Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us by C. N. Lester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
CN Lester takes the reader through the most pressing questions in the transgender debate, combined with a charged personal narrative of what it means to be a transgender person today. Trans Like Me shows us how we are all defined by ideas of gender, whether we live our lives as he, she or they, and how ...Show more
Dog Called Hope by Jason Morgan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a months-long coma, he was told he'd never walk again. Discovered face-down in a Central American swamp after a jungle mission gone wrong, he had a smashed spine, collapsed lungs and countless broken bones. It was a miracle he'd even survived. Months ...Show more
A House in the Sky : A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything by Amanda Lindhout; Sara Corbett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The inspiring story of a woman who survived kidnap and being held captive for a year in war-torn Somalia . . . Amanda Lindhout loved to travel. She backpacked around the world, crossing borders, enthralled by what she encountered. This led her to becoming a reporter, working in war-ridden Afghanistan an ...Show more
A Boy in the Last Boat: A Journey Around the World by Ben Lochtenberg
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A Singapore 1931 born young colonial Dutch boy, whose Father suffered and died as a Japanese prisoner of war building a railway in Sumatra, escaped from Java with his Mother and arrived as a refugee in Bunbury Australia in 1942. Educated by Jesuits and then at the University of Western Australia and Oxf ...Show more