Love, Dad: Confessions of an Anxious Father by Laurie Steed
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A must-read for all parents, Love, Dad explores what it means to be a father in the twenty-first century.The father of two young boys, Laurie reflects on how his own experiences have defined the kind of man he is and the kind of parent he would like to become. His stories - triumphant, funny and sad - d ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
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
Out of This Century - Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim
$24.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story of her life and loves: her stormy relationships with such men as Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock, and her discovery of new artists. Kno ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
Life and Death Decisions by Lachlan McIver
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
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
The Happiest Man on Earth (Illustrated Edition) by Eddie Jaku
$44.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He ...Show more
A Journey by Tony Blair
$35.00 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in p ...Show more
Still Travelling by Mal Leyland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Mike and Mal Leyland's first step towards becoming beloved Aussie icons came with the screening of their hazardous trip down the length of the Darling River in a five-metre aluminium dinghy. They went on to have numerous adventures, culminating in their ground-breaking TV series, Ask the Leyland Brother ...Show more
Last Flight: Amelia Earhart's Flying Adventures by Amelia Earhart
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Amelia Earhart was twice the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air: initially in 1928 as a passenger just a year after Lindbergh's pioneering flight and then in 1932 flying solo. Like her contemporaries Amy Johnson and Beryl Markham she was featured in all the fashionable magazines of the day as a sy ...Show more
I Knew You'd Have Brown Eyes (Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2016) by Mary Tennant
$27.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes charts the journey of mother and child from an unhappy parting at birth through the changing of Australia’s adoption laws and a bitter-sweet reunification that stopped, stuttered and restarted before finally becoming a relationship. Spanning forty years and set against a ba ...Show more
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
$38.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."--Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Willia ...Show more
A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King
$49.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A collection of the speeches, interviews and writings of the American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. It aims to feature the heart of his works on non-violence, social policy, black nationalism and democracy, the nuclear issue and the ethics of love and hope.