Joy of Money, The by Kate McCallum; Julia Newbould
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Money isn’t just about money. It’s about security. It’s about choices - to live our lives the way we want. It’s about everything money enables you to do and just as importantly what it allows you not to do. Money is complex. Women know that they need to be smart about money, but are often stopped short: ...Show more
Unfinished Business - Life As a Senator by Derryn Hinch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Derryn Hinch made headlines in 2016 when he went from media personality to Victorian Senator at the head of a new political party and made a lasting impact on the political landscape. This is an unflinchingly honest account of his last two years as a senator, before he lost his seat in the 2019 election ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story. When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jers ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ellis described the fungi:Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis Ro ...Show more
Craft For A Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Kim Mahood takes us back to the Australian Outback of her youth. In this award-winning memoir, she explores her relationship with her father, her art and the places where she grew up, examining how a settler population relates to history and to land.
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
Perfect Sound Whatever: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by James Acaster
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages. PERFECT SOUND WHATEVER is a love letter to the healing power of music, and how one man's obsessive quest saw him defeat the bullshit of one year with the beauty of anothe ...Show more
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this deeply intimate and insightful work, Daylight describes how her rich storehouse of reading has nourished her life, and how her life informs her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection - the details - that really matter: what we see when someone close to us dies, w ...Show more
Tour de Force by Roman Quaedvlieg
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From his first day in uniform as a policeman during the dying days of 'the Moonlight State' on the mean streets of Fortitude Valley, to undercover with bikies and gangs; working alongside colleagues solid and dubious until he reached the nation's corridors of power, Roman Quaedvlieg has seen it all. Foc ...Show more
A Book of Friends - In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday by Dorothy Driver (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A Book of Friendsis a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It includes contributions from some of Coetzee's friends and contemporaries, and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his partner over the past four decades. Stretching from th ...Show more