Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Growing Grapes Might Be Fun: How We Made a Vineyard Out of a Junkyard at Cockatoo Hill by Deirdre Macken
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
An honest, very funny account of a couple's move to the country for a fresh start. Bursting with optimism and a can-do attitude, they're on a steep learning curve as they establish a vineyard and learn how things are done in the country. I imagined lounging on a veranda overlooking folds of hills stripe ...Show more
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
In the vein of Tara Westover's Educated, Daniella Mestyanek's memoir is a searing and powerful testament to a woman's ability to transform the circumstances of her life through inner strength and resilience. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured first takes us beh ...Show more
Ion Idriess - The Last Interview by Tim Bowden (As told to); Tom Thompson (Created by, (various roles), As told by, Editor, Designed by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Ion "Jack" Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown.This book is his last interv ...Show more
Father of Lions: The Story of Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "An unexpected pleasure. You wouldn’t think a book about the Islamic State occupation of the Iraqi town of Mosul could be funny, but in places it is, as she brings out the underlying the ...Show more
Red Herrings for Breakfast by Annabet Ousback
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
This beautiful and poignant memoir traces the lives of Annabet and Anders Ousback, who grew up in seemingly idyllic conditions in a boat shed in Balmoral. Annabet grew up to be a fashion and clothing designer and manufacturer and Anders became a world recognised chef and was largely responsible for deve ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Truths from an Unreliable Witness: Finding laughter in the darkest of places by Fiona O'Loughlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir from one of Australia's most loved comedians shows us that no matter how far down you get, there is always a way back. Fiona O'Loughlin was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard ... unless there were guests in the house. Then she ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$27.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love by Brandon Jack
$29.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man. 'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing' Malcolm Knox'Brandon Jack is a force for good' Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the Shameless podcastContinually t ...Show more
All About Yves: Notes from a transition by Yves Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience. Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones? I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a ...Show more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more