The Lucky Laundry: longlisted for 2022 Walkley Award and 2022 winner of Financial Crime Fighter Award by Nathan Lynch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks. Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates r ...Show more
The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard by Nathan Hobby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Novelist, journalist and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard won fame for vivid novels that broke new ground depicting distinctly Australian ways of life and work - from Gippsland pioneers and West Australian prospectors to Pilbara station hands and outback opal miners. Her prize-winning debut The Pion ...Show more
Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez by Cindy Solonec
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I listened to my family’s narratives and my ancestors began to emerge in an almost life-like way.' — Cindy Solonec This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, plac ...Show more
James Patterson: The Stories of My Life by James Patterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The official autobiography of James Patterson, where he tells the story of his life and his journey to becoming a world-renowned author who continues to captivate readers across the globeHow did a boy from small-town New York become one of the world's most successful writers? On the morning he was born, ...Show more
We Are What We Eat - A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Waters
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture. When she first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Waters found that the phenomenon of fast food culture, which prioritized chea ...Show more
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana . . . and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful ...Show more
Becoming Mrs. Lewis - The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A heart-rending historical romance, and a glimpse into the life of a writer Poet, atheist and communist, New Yorker Joy Davidman is an unconventional woman - and an unlikely partner for an English academic and theologian. And when she starts a correspondence with Narnia author C. S. Lewis, she isn't l ...Show more
Why I'm Not a Millionaire by Nancy Spain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig'Some people thought her merely bohemian, but others were grateful to have so engaging a role-model' INDEPENDENTThe superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascina ...Show more
Death Goes on Skis by Nancy Spain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: A\Miriam Birdeye Mystery Ser.
'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi ToksvigMiriam Birdseye is daring, brilliant - and a long way from The Ivy. ...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
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
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021* Determined not ...Show more