Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir
The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative an ...Show more
Jane Austen - Inspiring Lives by Lauren Nixon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Inspiring Lives Ser.
Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist - 200 years after her death we seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & Sensibility and the smouldering passion of Pride & Prejudice - resulting in a near constant supply of film adaptations and spin-off books. The fan marke ...Show more
Biographic - Hemingway - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Jamie Pumfrey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic Ser.
Most people know that Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was a towering figure of American literature, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner and author of novels including The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was an ambulance driver in the World War I and suffe ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
$59.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Mood. A memoir of love, identity & mental health by Roz Bellamy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Mood is a memoir that perfectly suits our times, and our collective journey to understand how we are shaped by our identities. It is a testament to hard-won growth through self-knowledge. Roz Bellamy is a first-generation Jewish Australian who identifies as non-binary. They met their wife, Rachel, as ...Show more
Wild - A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
Line in the Sand by Dean Yates
$36.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
The World of Mab Grimwade by Thea Gardiner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An exquisitely packaged hardback revealing the untold story of an influential Australian philanthropist. Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887-1973), or 'Mab' to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to the a ...Show more
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make her Disappear by Kate Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in 1 ...Show more