Grief on the Run by Julie Zarifeh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater rafting accident just sixteen days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. She describes how she and her surviving son and daughter dealt with this double whammy and how she embraced the not ...Show more
Shanghai Acrobat by Jingjing Xue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For readers of Mao's Last Dancer comes the inspiring true story of a world-famous acrobat who escaped communist China to begin a new life in Australia. Jingjing Xue was born in China in the 1950s, during one of the worst times in the reign of communist leader Mao Zedong, or Chairman Mao. Mao's extreme f ...Show more
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's StartupScene by Anna Wiener
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
‘Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit‘Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino‘This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's ph ...Show more
My Inner Sky: On embracing day, night and all the times in between by Mari Andrew
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of ...Show more
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
The Prime Ministers - Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership by Iain Dale
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
**SHORTLISTED for the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS** A Times Political Book of the Year 'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters and stories of prime ministers past.' - New Statesman 'A wealth of enjoyable insights into three centuries of Westminster politics... It is a ...Show more
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power by Rod Barton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and into the depths of war and politics. I was no James Bond with a licence to kill, but I worked with the British intelligence services and with, and for, the CIA. I had guns pointed ...Show more
The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes by Krissy Kneen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In her 2010 memoir, Affection, Krissy Kneen introduced readers to her unique family and the towering matriarchal figure of her grandmother. Stern, domineering, fiercely loving, Lotty Kneen-born Dragitsa-was always tight-lipped about her early life and family history. She rebuffed Krissy's curiosity and ...Show more
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An award-winning poet's nonfiction debut - essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support and inspire us. "What the peacock can do is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindn ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple 'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 18 ...Show more
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Spring 1958- a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and ...Show more