The Writer Laid Bare: Emotional Honesty in a Writer’s Art, Craft and Life by Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Inspired by her popular writing courses, Lee also offers practical advice on drafts, edits and how to achieve a life/writing balance. How combining her writing with motherhood led her to recognise that ‘ the pram in the hall’ issue is real. Plus the ultimate reading list of books you really should ...Show more
A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 2008, a YouTube clip became an internet phenomenon. It showed the emotional reunion of two young men and their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa to be introduced into his rightful home in the wild. Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and John Rendall visited London from Australia in 1969 and bo ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Silver Linings: A Journey to Happiness by Alex Fevola
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Silver Linings is a story of resilience from an Australian woman who knows more than most about what it takes to bounce back from hardship. Life has dealt Alex Fevola many lows and highs, not least of which she experienced through her turbulent relationship with AFL football great Brendan Fevola. Now a ...Show more
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and illustrated, this book is a must for lovers of Tudor histo ...Show more
The Space Between the Stars: On Love, Loss and the Magical Power of Nature To Heal by Indira Naidoo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts. 'Life-changing' Kate Ceberano'Powerfully moving and insightful' David George Haskell For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year bet ...Show more
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures by Charlie English
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Book of the Year 'A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity... [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint' TLS The fabled city o ...Show more
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Luminous, illuminating - lose yourself in the lives and stories of a woodland village in Sweden, at the quiet edge of a turning worldNear the river Klar lven, snug in the dense forest landscape of northern V rmland, lies the secluded village of Osebol. It is a quiet place- one where relationships take r ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...Show more
The Ghost Tattoo: Discovering the hidden truth of my father's Holocaust by Tony Bernard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The profoundly moving story of a son's quest to uncover his father's Holocaust secret. To the outside world, Henry Bernard was a hard-working and beloved family doctor on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Yet he was also a Holocaust survivor whose life was profoundly affected by the experiences of his past. H ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.First publi ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more