Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude by Emma Forrest
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful'Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day . . . I think she might be a genius'Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games'I've really never read about sex and been so sharply reminded about how much it is tied up ...Show more
The Coffin Confessor by William Edgar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.'Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest ...Show more
My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighb ...Show more
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. It shows that real power is collective power and that speaking up and allying yourself with likeminded others is one of the key pathways to change. This is ...Show more
Everything and Nothing by Heather Mitchell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from esteemed Australian stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell. Behind the scenes, Heather Mitchell's real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinch ...Show more
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium by Prudence Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales — its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people tha ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Edmund Richardson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'This is a jewel of a book' - SUNDAY TIMES'One of the great stories of archaeology, exploration and espionage' - William Dalrymple'Immensely enjoyable' - BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE____________________________________For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and Wes ...Show more
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty by Ash Barty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. WINNER OF THE ABIA AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY 2023 I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$36.99 AUD
Category: Political
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestsellerWith her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society's weirdly unasked question: What About Men?Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Memoir of Language, Writing & Mortality
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognos ...Show more