Kiss & Cry - Nine Decades of Life and Love by Liz Hicklin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Fuelled by an adventurous spirit, Liz Hicklin has lived life to the full. In this enthralling memoir Liz tells a brutally honest story that spans nine decades, describing a life that is far from ordinary. As a young child she found herself the recipient of her father's strict Methodist parenting style; ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life by Commodore Peter Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary story of an Australian submariner.From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner.Over a decorated 3 ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin.Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twiligh ...Show more
I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
I Had a Father in Karratha tracks a daughter's epic undertaking to honour her father while cleaning up his mess and, ultimately, laying him to rest. This is a fly-in fly-out marathon about commitment, responsibility, doggedness and love. What happens when your father dies and he's in the Pilbara, 4500 ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Non Fiction ‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested a ...Show more
Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man by Frances Peters-Little
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia’s most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country music legends and icons, Jimmy Little. At just 16 years of age, Jimmy Little travelled to Sydney to make his radio debut on Austral ...Show more
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'The importance of the brave and blighted dial-painters cannot be overstated.' Sunday Times'A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific and the personal.' Bustle'Thrilling and carefully crafted.' Mail on SundayOrdinary women in 1920s America.All they wanted was the chance to shine.Be careful what ...Show more
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was ...Show more
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ...Show more
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.