Making Headlines by Chris Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for over a dozen years. In this humorous and revealing book he gives first hand details about the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and med ...Show more
Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in ...Show more
The Latte Years: A Story of Losses, Gains and Life Beyond the After Photo by Philippa Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
At twenty-four Philippa Moore is overweight, unhappily married, and still living in her hometown of Hobart, Tasmania. After a wake-up call in a department-store changing room, Phil suddenly realises that she is on the wrong path. With determination she starts to shed the kilos, and makes a confronting d ...Show more
Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky. 'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in "Nij ...Show more
Martini: A Memoir by Frank Moorhouse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, MARTINI: A MEMOIR is Frank Moorhouse at his melancholy and hilarious best. As he muses on the aesthetics of martini lore - olive or twist, shake ...Show more
Wicked But Virtuous: My Life by Mirka Mora
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Few artists in Australia are held in such affectionate esteem as Mirka Mora. Even fewer have had such an amazing life. Narrowly avoiding Auschwitz during the Second World War, she and her husband Georges settled in Melbourne, where their landmark cafe-restaurants became a magnet for artists, writers and ...Show more
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more
Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a pioneering photographer, Oxford don and mathematician, who - as Lewis Carroll - gave the world not only Alice, but the Jabberwocky, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and an unforgettable tea party. But who was he? In this elegant, affectionate ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In the accessible style of Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman comes bestselling author Tara Moss's first exciting non-fiction book - a fascinating mix of memoir and social comment.Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including 'author', 'model', 'gold-digger', 'commentator', 'inspiration', 'dumb b ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including "author," "model," "gold-digger," "commentator," "inspiration," "dumb blonde," "feminist," and "mother," among many others. Now, in her first work of non-fiction, she blends memoir and social analysis to examine the common fictions about women. She ...Show more
Make Your Mind Up by Bethany Mota
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Bethany first propped her camera on a stack of books and pressed record in 2009, she didn't realise her life was about to change-forever. After uploading her first video to YouTube at just thirteen years old, Bethany quickly became one of the Internet's go-to beauty, style, and lifestyle vlogger. S ...Show more
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane by Elspeth Muir
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In 2009 Elspeth Muir's youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone, wallet, T-shirt and thongs on the walkway, climbed over the railing, and jumped thirty metres into the Brisbane River b ...Show more