Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in ...Show more
Orange is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and senten ...Show more
The Girl Who Beat Isis: My Story by Farida Khalaf & Andrea C. Hoffman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and bro ...Show more
Worlds Apart: A Muslim Girl with the SAS by Alisha Khan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
By the age of twelve, Azi Ahmed had been fully trained in all the skills her mother thought necessary to become the perfect housewife: knitting, sewing and sitting pretty. Little did she know that a rather different sort of training lay in her future.With no military experience, physically slight and, b ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more
You're Still Hot to Me by Jean Kittson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A fact-filled conversation starter on menopause by comedian and health campaigner Jean Kittson.When Jean Kittson hit menopause, she was amazed at what she didn't know. Given that 1.5 million Australian women are menopausal at any one time, why, she wondered, was menopause so little discussed and then on ...Show more
You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Jessi Klein is a brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you wish you had' - Amy Schumer 'Miranda July meets Tina Fey' The Pool As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian ...Show more
Theft by Hanif Kureishi
$9.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.' A bravura piece of very personal reportage by Hanif Kureishi about the man who stole his life savings. Nearing sixty and needing to plan for his and hi ...Show more
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