ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography: The autobiography of the legendary Manchester United manager by Alex Ferguson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the Premier League for the 13th time, and he is widely considered to be the greatest manager in the history of British football. Over the last quarter o ...Show more
Under a Bilari Tree I Born by Bilari Smith Alice
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Alice Bilari Smith lived in the Pilbara, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. Narrowly avoiding removal from her family by 'the Welfare', life on the stations taught her to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. As a young married woman she ad ...Show more
Judi: Behind the Scenes by Judi Dench
$45.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
An illustrated memoir of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved actors. 'National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid ... What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I'm trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the b ...Show more
Mrs Escobar - My Life with Pablo by Victoria Eugenia Henao
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The closest you'll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his side The story of Pablo Escobar, one of the wealthiest, powerful and violent criminals of all time has fascinated the world. Yet the one person closest to him has never spoken out - until ...Show more
A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Australian
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
Kafka's Last Trial: The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy. Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpubli ...Show more
Square Haunting - Five Women and Freedom in Interwar London by Francesca Wade
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' Sarah Bakewell 'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' Sally Rooney 'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to a ...Show more
Riding with Giants by Peter Holmes à Court
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 2011, international businessman Peter Holmes Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and c ...Show more
Craft For A Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Kim Mahood takes us back to the Australian Outback of her youth. In this award-winning memoir, she explores her relationship with her father, her art and the places where she grew up, examining how a settler population relates to history and to land.
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this deeply intimate and insightful work, Daylight describes how her rich storehouse of reading has nourished her life, and how her life informs her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection - the details - that really matter: what we see when someone close to us dies, w ...Show more
A Book of Friends - In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday by Dorothy Driver (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Book of Friendsis a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It includes contributions from some of Coetzee's friends and contemporaries, and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his partner over the past four decades. Stretching from th ...Show more