Reckoning - A Memoir (HB) by Magda Szubanski
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, tells her story. In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father ...Show more
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" (Entertainment Weekly). From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. F ...Show more
Rebellious Daughters by Maria Katsonis & Lee Kofman (edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia's most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the ex ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Frank and funny, this memoir vividly recounts the first 17 years of the author's life in Sydney's slums and in New South Wales' countryside. Abandoned by her mother as a baby and by her volatile grandmother as a young girl, Kate Howarth was shunted between Aboriginal relatives and expected to grow up fa ...Show more
Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Twenty years ago, Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned villa called Bramasole in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. With glorious descriptions of the vibrant local markets, food, wine ...Show more
Caught in the Crossfire: An Australian Peace Keeper's Perilous Journey by Matina Jewell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 2006, while part of an unarmed UN peacekeeping team at the border junction of Lebanon, Israel, and Syria, Australian Major Matina Jewell and her colleagues were caught in a full-scale war with tragic consequences. In the days that followed she and her teammates reported hundreds of violations of the ...Show more
The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
$22.50 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Yorkshire Shepherdess Ser.
A Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller.Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband Clive and seven children at Ravenseat, ...Show more
Life in His Hands: The True Story of a Neurosurgeon and a Pianist by Susan Wyndham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Charlie Teo is one of Australias most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. His pioneering 'keyhole' techniques have earned him praise around the world, but in his home country he is regarded by some in the profession as reckless and even dangerous. In 2001, at the age of 24, Aaron McMillan was d ...Show more
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isa ...Show more
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - HC by Aron Ralston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the ...Show more
Ray: Stories of My Life by Ray Martin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"The bestselling autobiography of one of Australia's most loved personalities is now in paperback. Ray Martin tells the story of his less than stellar introduction to the glamorous world of television. Before Ray had even got to high school, he had lived in thirteen different places, in three Australian ...Show more