Stoker Munro: Survivor by David Spiteri
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ...We were a go ...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
Drink Smoke Pass Out (POD) by Judith Lucy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Judith Lucy has looked everywhere for happiness. Growing up a Catholic, she thought about becoming a nun, and later threw herself into work, finding a partner and getting off her face. Somehow, none of that worked. More recently, she's been asking herself the big questions. Why are we here? Is there a G ...Show more
Fighter by Paul Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Paul 'Warlord' Warren was an Australian Muay Thai kick-boxing champion who was used to the physically punishing world of martial arts at its highest level. But nothing could prepare him for the torment he would face in the Australian army. One month after he arrived in Afghanistan as a soldier in the AD ...Show more
Things That Matter: Stories of life and death by David Galler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In this highly articulate, down to earth, generous and thoughtful book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital. Weaving his own personal stories throughout - including the death of his parents - David frames a number of chapte ...Show more
The Coen Brothers: The iconic filmmakers and their work by NATHAN, IAN
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Iconic Filmmakers Ser.
Through indepth and informative text written by film journalist Ian Nathan, The Coen Brothers Archivewith re-examine the brothers most famous work including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men and True Grit, as well as some of their cult films, su ...Show more
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astoni ...Show more
An American Family by Khizr Khan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Timely and timeless, An American Family is an intensely personal immigrant story. Khizr Khan traces his remarkable journey from humble beginnings as one of ten children born on a farm in rural Pakistan, his grandfather reading Rumi beneath the moonlight and instilling in young Khizr a yearning for educa ...Show more
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you; it's that I am worse. I am an addict-addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love, and fame. This is the age of addiction, a condition so endemic, so all-encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an ext ...Show more
Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In "Chanel: An Intimate Life", acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era. Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She ...Show more
Round the Bend by Jeremy Clarkson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Jeremy Clarkson gets really riled in Round the Bend. What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles at ...Show more
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her ...Show more