The Women's Pool by Lynne Spender (ed)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The history of McIvers Ladies Baths in Coogee affectionately know as the Womens Pool is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there. The history of Coogees McIvers Ladies Baths Australias only ocean pool reserved ...Show more
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more
The Private Life of Spies by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943, much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late September that year. He failed to send a single ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'This is history with the engaging intimacy of a novel. Bashford brilliantly marries intellectual history with the story of four generations in a literary tour de force' Professor Jim Secord, author of Visions of Science 'Packed with insights ... tells a magnificent story about the huge personalities a ...Show more
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy - an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career, with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One Is Walking, he ...Show more
Smashing Serendipity The Story of One Moorditj Yorga by Louise Hansen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
This is a raw, gritty, inspiring, eye-opening true story of one woman's life that represents the lives of so many other Aboriginal women like her. Life is tough for the Connell family, growing up in a small town where racist attitudes, discrimination and violence against Aboriginal people are commonplac ...Show more
The God of No Good by Sita Walker
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
This is not a book about divorce. It’s not a book about God, either. You might think it is a book about goodness and what it means to be a good person, but it isn’t. Like everything else, this is about love. Sita Walker was raised by five strong matriarchs who taught her to believe in God and to be goo ...Show more
Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours later, at the age of 27, his heart stopped. Found, Wanting tells the story of Natasha’s attempt to rebuild her life in the wake of Rob’s sudden death, stumbli ...Show more
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. 'This is a brilliant book by a brilliant man. A magician with perfect taste. Thank God I met him. He is gold dust!' ELTON JOHN Leaving school at the age of sixteen to s ...Show more
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On the West by Catherine Belton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
ASunday Timesbestseller | ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year byThe Economist|Financial Times |New Statesman | TheTelegraph"[Putin's People]will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism."--Anne Applebaum,The Atlantic"This riveting, im ...Show more
The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 by Zachary Gorman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics? Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more