Every Day In Tuscany: Seasons of a Italian Life by Frances Mayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this new memoir Frances Mayes offers her readers another deeply personal account of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her previous memoirs appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless, unchanging beauty and simple pleasures of It ...Show more
Shine it Up by Jackie Gillies
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The inspirational story of Jackie Gillies - star of The Real Housewives of Melbourne and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - and one of Australia's most-sought after psychic mediums Sassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim. Well know ...Show more
Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation's urban c ...Show more
Mrs Escobar - My Life with Pablo by Victoria Eugenia Henao
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The closest you'll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his side The story of Pablo Escobar, one of the wealthiest, powerful and violent criminals of all time has fascinated the world. Yet the one person closest to him has never spoken out - until ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael Mcgurk and Ron Medich by Kate McClymont
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would come from a Point Piper millionaire. Kate McClymont is Australia?s ...Show more
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981 1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lo ...Show more
Inside Out by Demi Moore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight--or the headlines.Even a ...Show more
Lambs of God by Marele Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The classic and bestselling Australian novel, soon to be a major TV miniseries. SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV MINISERIES. 'marvellous' - The New York Times. The flock of nuns and the flock of sheep had been together for so long that the sheep, if they had enough brains to consider the matter at all, thought of ...Show more
Logical Family by Armistead Maupin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America's finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us."--Neil Gaiman "I fell in love with Maupin's effervesce ...Show more
A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Australian
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam Kashner; Nancy Schoenberger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else--Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill--from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee ...Show more