The Art of Breaking Ice by Rachael Mead
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would make history by becoming the first Australian woman to set foot on the icy continent, but it was her art that would change everyt ...Show more
Broke: A story about love, when love is all you have by Sam Drummond
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A memoir about downward mobility, disability and hope. In Broke, lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply humane tale of life on the fringes.
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"From Borrower to wizard, Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame saw him catapulted into the limelight aged just twelve when he landed the iconic role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Speaking with candour and his own trademark humour, Tom shares his experie ...Show more
Your Name is Not Anxious: A very personal guide to putting anxiety in its place by Stephanie Dowrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Anxiety is restricting millions of lives. Award-winning writer, Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, shows how new mind-body insights and research can emphatically restore the inner security that anxiety takes away. Restoring the wellbeing that anxiety takes away Of all the possible blows to your emotional health, ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons by Thomas Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we we ...Show more
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller o ...Show more
Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of a Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones, in her own words. ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The first full account of a truly remarkable life. When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humour, and ha ...Show more
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection--from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War vete ...Show more