Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue by Marc Spitz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An examination of Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led as the legendary front man of the Rolling Stones. As the Rolling Stones celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, their legendary front man remains an enigma; he hasn't given an in-depth interview in a decade and a half. Dra ...Show more
The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope by Nancy Tucker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: 'I want to be thin.' Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way tow ...Show more
Talking About a Revolution by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic, optimistic, naive, youthful grass-roots organiser and oil rig worker ...Show more
Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and bru ...Show more
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton by Joe Moshenska
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips 'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' Spectator For most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightle ...Show more
A Waiter in Paris - Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious un ...Show more
Nothing But The Truth: Stories of Crime, Guilt and the Loss of Innocence by The Secret Barrister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it's such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal ...Show more
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
<b>'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton</b> <i>A Fortunate Woman</i> is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and ...Show more
The Family by Chris Johnston; Rosie Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: General Adult
A powerful work of investigative journalism about a notorious cult based in Melbourne, Australia, that captured world-wide headlines. The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Starting in Melbourne, Australia, t ...Show more
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most? One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his son while his wife, Helene, was at a concert with friend ...Show more
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A young secular writer's journey along ancient religious pilgrimage routes in Spain, Japan and Ukraine leads to a surprise family reconciliation in this literary memoir Gideon Lewis-Kraus arrived in free-spirited Berlin from San Francisco as a young writer in search of a place to enjoy life to the fulle ...Show more