Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader by Philip Short
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his nei ...Show more
Rise & Rise Of Kerry Packer 'uncut' by Paul Barry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Paul Barry's THE RISE AND RISE OF KERRY PACKER is a classic piece of Australian non-fiction publishing. Originally released in 1993 when Packer was still alive, it has sold well over a quarter of a million copies and is widely seen as the definitive book on a man who throughout his remarkable life mysti ...Show more
Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview by Cobain, Kurt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Kurt Cobain burst into American consciousness with a vengeance with the release of Nevermind, an instant classic that defined a sound and a generation. As the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana, he changed American music as few musicians ever have. His instantly identifiable raspy croon, his slash-and ...Show more
Sunset in Spain by Erna Walraven
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Bidding adios to work and Sydney, Erna and Alex decide to pursue a dream of living in the north of Spain. They fall in love with a tiny Castilian village, and set about restoring a long-forgotten, falling down villa that will soon be their new home. Letting go of old ways, they get swept up in the colou ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neig ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
PARIS: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
From the woman who is credited, for better and for worse, for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, “brand” driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there is so much more to Paris Hilton than you ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more
The Great Dead Body Teachers: An adventure into the world of anatomy and dissection by Jackie Dent
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Since I was a child, I’ve been interested in dead bodies. When I was eight years old, I dug up the remains of my pet budgie Zazbut. He had been buried for about eight weeks in a patch of grass outside our house in Dasmarinas, a fortified village in Manila, in the Philippines. ‘The first exhumation was ...Show more
A Joyful Life: One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude by Rosemary Kariuki, Summer Land
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local Heroes. Long before she was advocating for refugee and migrant women just like herself, Rosemary was a survivor like no other. As a child, she survived the first of many times she was sexually abused. A ...Show more
Memory, Love and its Discontents by Rod Myer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Rod Myer has had an unusual and interesting life. A descendant of the celebrated Myer family, he had an adventurous spirit and explored his identity through travelling and research. A farm kid born in Kelly country, he had premonitions and yearnings which led to mustering cattle with Aboriginal people i ...Show more
Higher Sobriety: My Years Without Booze by Jill Stark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety.As one of the original pioneers in the 'quit lit' space, Jill started a national conversation about the role of alcohol in our lives, turning the lens on her own rocky ...Show more