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
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King by Billie Jean King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals -- let alone athletes -- of recent timesIn this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career -- six years ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more
Dog Days: A Year with Olive and Mabel by Andrew Cotter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Join two of the internet's favorite dogs and their owner, sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter, on a journey through a year unlike any other. Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found it really quite tasty. He ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for commun ...Show more
Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk by Tim Entwisle
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this wildly rich memoir, a director at some of the world's finest botanic gardens - Sydney, Kew and Melbourne - suggests such places are a cure for the world's ills.Tim Entwisle believes these sanctuaries can address the key threats of our time, such as climate change and plant extinction, while simu ...Show more
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
<b><i>'Swan Dive </i>is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain’s <i>Kitchen Confidential</i> was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy backstage.' Daisy Goodwin, <i>Sunday Times</i></b> <b> ...Show more
Charlie's Good Tonight - The Life, The Times and The Rolling Stones by Paul Sexton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The official and fully authorised biography of the world’s most revered and celebrated drummers, and mainstay of The Rolling Stones Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz d ...Show more
Don't Look Away: A memoir of identity & acceptance by Danielle Laidley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising. This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach, Danielle Laidley. Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain. This is how Danielle felt, for most of her life. For the best part of five decades, within a hyper-masculine sporting environment, Danielle Laidley h ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
One of most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old ...Show more