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
A Life Less Sugar: How I Lost 20kg By Reducing My Sugar Intake (With Recipes) by Amanda Tiffen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How many teaspoons of sugar do you consume a day? Amanda Tiffen went from 30 teaspoons of sugar per day (unknowingly) to 6 teaspoons of sugar per day and in doing so lost an astonishing 20 KG. After years of dieting and fighting to control her weight, Amanda easily went from a size 16 to a size 8 in 9 m ...Show more
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called ...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
Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon by Iris Apfel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"I have rarely met someone as vivid, as alive, as vital, vivacious, irreverent, joyous, relevant, and needed as Iris. She breathes young air, thinks young thoughts, and gathers no dust. I simply adore her."--Dries van Noten A unique and lavishly illustrated collection of musings, anecdotes, and observa ...Show more
Man Called Yarra by Stan Yarramunua
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
oI'm a Wathaurong man. I'm an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.oStan oYarrao Yarramunua- artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill - and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father - Yarra had a tumultuous and of ...Show more
Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home by Sisonke Msimang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
If I were given five minutes with my younger self--that little girl who cried every time we had to leave for another country--I would hold her tight and not say a word. I would just be still and have her feel my beating heart, a thud to echo her own--a silent message that, no matter the outcome, she wou ...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
Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration by Leonard S. Marcus
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating, beautiful and definitive account of the life of esteemed artist Helen Oxenbury. Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life, from her early childhood through a unique career in children's books that began in 1964 and is still going strong today, here is an exquisitely designed an ...Show more
Sick - A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery. For as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100, ...Show more
Fridays with My Folks by Amal Awad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Amal Awad's life changed when her father was diagnosed with kidney failure. It was a shock to see the impact it had on him, both physically and mentally, and the way the side effects trickled on to those around him. Work had always made him feel whole, and retirement was a challenge. On a mission to he ...Show more