The Doors by Greil Marcus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The author saw the Doors band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. This title tells the story of the band. A fan from the moment the Doors' first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in ...Show more
The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Incurable Disease and Learning How to Live by Christian Donlan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
"My daughter took her first steps on the day I was diagnosed - a juxtaposition so perfect, so trite, so filled with the tacky artifice of real life that I am generally too embarrassed to tell anybody about it."Shortly after his daughter Leontine was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the ...Show more
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling who sang (an improved version of!) the theme from his Piano Concerto Number 17 in G to him. Knowing a kindred spirit when he met one, Mozart wrote "That was wonderful" in his journal and took the bird home to be his pet. For th ...Show more
One Blade of Grass: A Zen Memoir by Henry Shukman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
**A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTION**'Captivating'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'The book Shukman was born to write'NATALIE GOLDBERG, author of WRITING DOWN THE BONES'A wonderful and generous book'DAVID HINTON, author of THE WILDS OF POETRY'Heartfelt and beautifully written'STEPHEN BATCHELOR, author of AFTER ...Show more
The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A remarkable true story of one family's daring escape from Poland during the Second World War.'A story of extraordinary bravery, resilience and love that needed to be told.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzWritten by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is ...Show more
Good Morning Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love by Nina Renata Aron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A moving memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to grapple with addiction, codependency and our appetite for obsessive love. 'The disease he has is addiction,' Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend. 'The disease I have is loving him.' Their affa ...Show more
My Unapologetic Diaries by Joan Collins
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'These diaries are like their author - fabulously entertaining, impossibly glamorous, and utterly irresistible' Piers MorganThese are Dame Joan Collins' 'uncensored diaries'. Often outrageous, the entries were almost written entirely in real time. Most were done within ten hours of the events Joan descr ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and t ...Show more
The Smallest Lights in the Universe - A Memoir by Sara Seager
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. "Sara Seager's exploration of outer and inner space makes for a stunningly original memoir."--Abraham V ...Show more
This is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A moving memoir from the award-winning screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan about what happens when the person you love most no longer recognizes youOne afternoon, Abi Morgan returned home to find her longtime partner and father to their two kids collapsed on the bathroom floor. Jacob, who had been un ...Show more
The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea by Jihyun Park
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ ...Show more