Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
So Far, So Good: On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait by Aaron Fa'Aoso
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Sabai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers too.' On his long path to success from aspiring professional footballer to actor, director and producer for every opportunity Aaron Fa'Aoso had, there were setbacks and heartache.He was six w ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER PSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you? ME- I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Se-Hee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her what to call it? depression? S ...Show more
Raised by Wolves: A memoir with bite by Jess Ho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over food (and then only until the bill arrived), and it was clear that a normal life was never on the menu. She emerged from her childhood with two important traits: ...Show more
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Ben Bravery
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally wh ...Show more
The Summertime of Our Dreams by Michael Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Ji ...Show more
Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine by Peter Coleman, Matt Fowles
$31.50 AUD
$35.00 (10% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there s no better metaphor for life. Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion. It was at the bottle sh ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O'Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art, music, fr ...Show more
Desi Girl: On Feminism, Race, Faith and Belonging by Sarah Malik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A collection of fascinating, highly relatable memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Islamic Australian.As a Pakistani-Australian teenager growing up in Western Sydney, Sarah Malik came of age in the shadow of September 11. At the age of twenty, she moved ou ...Show more
Nowhere To Hide: A Memoir of Football, Mental Health and Resilience by Tom Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Recreation
A revealing and candid account of former AFL footballer Tom Boyd's struggle with mental health Tom Boyd was the AFL's No.1 draft pick in 2013. He was signed up by Western Sydney as their key recruit for the year. But Tom's enormous talent and potential was clouded by what he thought at the time was seve ...Show more
The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon by Anthony Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Acclaimed travel and nature writer Anthony Ham spotlights the world's largest rainforest in this unique combination of international politics, conservation, true crime, travel, biography and memoir. When Chris Clark was born in Glasgow in 1960, the Amazon was still intact and magnificent. Over his lifet ...Show more