Under Her Skin: The Life and Work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM, world-leading burns specialist and one of Australia's most innovative and respected surgeons, whose ground-breaking research and technology development has changed the lives of burns patients. When three bombs tore out the heart of Bali and destroyed so m ...Show more
It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This by Lisa Wilkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The #1 bestselling Australian autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson. Lisa Wilkinson has lived much of her life in the public eye. One of Australia's most respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant pre ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
Agatha Christie - An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Chris ...Show more
Telltale: Reading Writing Remembering by Carmel Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.’ In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only the books in her house, even if some, such as the much-l ...Show more
Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude by Emma Forrest
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful'Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day . . . I think she might be a genius'Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games'I've really never read about sex and been so sharply reminded about how much it is tied up ...Show more
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees, Bobuq Sayed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Nothing to Hide is the first ever anthology of Australian trans and gender diverse writing, a pioneering contribution to Australian letters. The past decade has been a tumultuous time in trans politics. The so-called 'transgender tipping point' pronounced by Time in 2014 has led to unprecedented trans ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings by Emma Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundreds of thousands online to live life to the fullest and remind us that if we can, we must. Ther ...Show more
Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia's most powerful premier by Sumeyya Ilanbey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The revealing biography of Australia's most powerful premier.State premiers have risen to national prominence in a way not seen in a half century, with Victoria's Daniel Andrews the most successful. This fascinating biography uncovers the story behind his surprising rise to leadership, and his handling ...Show more
Big Things Grow: A Memoir of Teaching on Country in Wilcannia by Sarah Donnelley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An inspiring memoir about passion, music and community within a remote outback town, from the winner of the 2020 ARIA Award for Music Teacher of the Year. This red dirt, it takes a hold of you. The blue skies, the sunsets, the starry nights, the river... Country holds onto you. Then you meet the people ...Show more
A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
On a quiet backstreet in Algiers is an unremarkable building with a remarkable history ... 'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.' - Nick Hornby 'Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in France' - The New Yor ...Show more