Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in.' In 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogyni ...Show more
Horse Rescue by Joanne Shoenwald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: General Adult
What brings me joy are the inspiring, goose-bumping, enlightening rescue stories of exhilarating triumph, quiet meditative wisdom, life-changing moments and powerful self-healing.' Horses are powerful beyond their physical measures. Through their unique bond to people, horses have the ability to heal, t ...Show more
You Are Not Like Other Mothers by Angelika Schrobsdorff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
As a young woman, Else made two promises to herself: to live life to the fullest and to have a child with every man she loves. So here are the stories of husbands, companions, lovers, and emissaries of a world in which men repeatedly prove themselves inadequate and the stories of Else's three children. ...Show more
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Amy Schumer. Her memoir. Need we say more? Amy Schumer is taking the world by storm. In just a few short years, she's become a huge movie star, writing and starring in Trainwreck, not to mention BFFs with Jennifer Lawrence and Judd Apatow, is a media darling, acclaimed as a subversive comic genius, and ...Show more
Bill - The Life of William Dobell by Scott Bevan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In post-war Australia, William Dobell was a household name. But the most famous artist in the land was a broken man. His Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith was the subject of a sensational legal case, challenging not only Dobell's right to the prize, but the very idea of art itself. Dobell ...Show more
Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living In Paris by Jennifer L. Scott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Have you ever wondered what everyday life is like inside a modern, aristocratic Parisian household - or how the women of Paris always looks so impossibly and seemingly effortlessly chic? The French are notoriously secretive when it comes to their private lives but Lessons from Madame Chic at last reveal ...Show more
The Santaland Diaries by DAVID SEDARIS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man's companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back se ...Show more
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacres in Norway by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just beginning their adult lives. In the devastating aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How could this happen? Why did it happen? And who was Anders Brei ...Show more
Wear Your Dreams - My Life in Tattoos by Ed Hardy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Ed Hardy is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colourful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners have become internationally ubiquitous. But long before the fashion world discovered his iconic designs, the man behind the eponymous bran ...Show more
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'An absolute must-read' VANITY FAIR Bette Davis and Joan Crawford: two of the deadliest arch-rivals of all time. Born in the same year (though Davis swore 'Crawford is five years older than me if she's a day'), the two fought bitterly throughout their long and brilliant Hollywood careers. Joan became a ...Show more
Ayesha's Gift - A daughter's search for the truth about her father by Martin Sixsmith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the bestselling Philomena, made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of su ...Show more
Scattered Pearls by Sohila Zanjani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From Tehran to Melbourne, a powerful memoir of survival. Scattered Pearls opens in pre-revolutionary Iran, where Sohila Zanjani grew up under the threat of violence, intimidation and control at the hands of her father. Resolving never to tread in the footsteps of her mother and her grandmother, both sur ...Show more