Sunset in Spain by Erna Walraven
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A warm, funny and poignant story of a couple's search for new challenges while pursuing a long-held dream of living la vida loca in northern Spain.
The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet ...Show more
Ballet Confidential: A Personal Behind-the-Scenes Guide by David McAllister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real ...Show more
Everything to Live For The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Everything to Live For is the story of one young woman's survival against extraordinary odds, a testament to the human spirit. In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would cha ...Show more
Romulus, My Father: Text Classics by Raimond Gaita
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is t ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable. Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expuls ...Show more