The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines; Joanna Gaines
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly Are you ready to see your fixer upper? These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves with anticip ...Show more
Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
Every Day In Tuscany: Seasons of a Italian Life by Frances Mayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this new memoir Frances Mayes offers her readers another deeply personal account of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her previous memoirs appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless, unchanging beauty and simple pleasures of It ...Show more
Shine it Up by Jackie Gillies
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The inspirational story of Jackie Gillies - star of The Real Housewives of Melbourne and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - and one of Australia's most-sought after psychic mediums Sassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim. Well know ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael Mcgurk and Ron Medich by Kate McClymont
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would come from a Point Piper millionaire. Kate McClymont is Australia?s ...Show more
Challenge Accepted! by Celeste Barber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman - not to ment ...Show more
Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning autho ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story. When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jers ...Show more
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
The Trials of Portnoy by Patrick Mullins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government offic ...Show more