Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB) by Deborah FitzGerald
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt ...Show more
Hell On The Way To Heaven by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"An Australian mother's love, the power of the Catholic Church and the fight for justice over child sexual abuse. Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known th ...Show more
The Price of Fortune: The untold story of being James packer by Damon Kitney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan ...Show more
Soar by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fifty years since he stepped into his first ballet class, McAllister reflects on his dance journey, his relationships, embracing his sexuality, and the combination of talent, timing and sheer perseverance that gave rise to his transformative career.
All About Yves: Notes from a transition by Yves Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience. Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones? I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a ...Show more
Prison Break: Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton, The World's Most Wanted Australians by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The real stories behind Gregory Roberts, John Killick and Australia's most daring prison escapes. In his global bestselling novel Shantaram, Gregory Roberts based his fiction on fact. He was once Australia's most wanted man - a prison escapee who went on to live an extraordinary life in India and beyond ...Show more
My Friend Fox by Heidi Everett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The fox sits on the outer waiting for me to discover him because at the moment, I am on the outer too. He watches me. Can you see him? He's clever at hiding. Heidi Everett has long felt the weight of her mental health record, which she has carried along with her from GP clinics to psych wards, social w ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth (Illustrated Edition) by Eddie Jaku
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Introduced at a poetry workshop in Boston University, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Scrubbed: A heart surgeon's extraordinary memoir of life, death and everything in between by Nikki Stamp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.