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
Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refres ...Show more
Aussie Ark by Tim Faulkner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Tim Faulkner's battle to save Australia's threatened wildlife - a fully illustrated biography featuring stories and lessons from a remarkable life on the frontline of animal conservation. From the time he was old enough to focus on an object, Tim Faulkner has had his eyes glued on things that slither, c ...Show more
Childhood: Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Shannon Burns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn't last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks later, she tracked him down and said she was pregnant. So he moved back in with her and they prepared themselves for parenthood. Eleven months later I was born. By the time my father discovered the decepti ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
ALAN RICKMAN was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend. Through his never-before-seen diaries - a twenty-five-year passion project - Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. Introduced b ...Show more
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen by Shannon Molloy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Part memoir, part investigation into the taboo topic of male child sexual abuse, You Made Me This Way is a very personal book, driven by Shannon revealing his own experience of having been sexually abused as a young child, and his grappling to understand how this has shaped him. The majority of men sex ...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 God of No Good by Sita Walker
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is not a book about divorce. It’s not a book about God, either. You might think it is a book about goodness and what it means to be a good person, but it isn’t. Like everything else, this is about love. Sita Walker was raised by five strong matriarchs who taught her to believe in God and to be goo ...Show more