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
Playing it My Way: My Autobiography by Sachin Tendulkar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
The greatest run-scorer in the history of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar retired in 2013 after an astonishing 24 years at the top. The most celebrated Indian cricketer of all time, he received the Bharat Ratna Award - India's highest civilian honour - on the day of his retirement. Now Sachin Tendulkar tells ...Show more
Things My Mother Taught Me by Claire Halliday
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Things My Mother Taught Me features stories of high profile mothers, and high profile people - from young actors, television personalities and older intellectuals to a famous chef, a fashion designer, a comedian, and many more - reflecting on their own relationship with their mothers. It is a book about ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more
Underground by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
"In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members ...Show more
Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother's Story by Brenda Niall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was w ...Show more
Heston Blumenthal: The Biography of the World's Most Brilliant Master Chef. by Chas Newkey-Burden
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is the man who turned the world of cuisine on its head and became a national hero with three Michelin stars. This is the inspirational story of his enthusiastic, self-taught genius. Heston is a gastronomic alchemist who sees the kitchen as a laboratory where he loves to ...Show more
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeym ...Show more
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Family: Stories of Belonging by Alaina Gougoulis, Ian See
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An uplifting collection of personal essays celebrating the various forms of family, featuring contributions from some of Australia's most exciting writers and thinkers The storybook idea of family-dad, mum, kids, gran and grandpa-doesn't always reflect the bonds that tie us most closely to one another ...Show more
I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was by Ruby Wax
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An honest and refreshing new exploration of mental health from mindfulness expert Ruby Wax. Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, takes a candid, dark, and witty dive through her life and personal experiences with mental health, providing solace and advice for anyone out there who realises they ar ...Show more