In the Sanctuary of Outcasts A Memoir by Neil White
$8.00 AUD
$32.95 (75% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
Neil White was once a man who lived by appearances - he owned expensive cars and a big house and worked at glossy magazines. When his bank balance couldn't keep up with his lifestyle, he started kiting - illegally depositing and drawing cheques between his two accounts. He got caught and was sent to pri ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller (HB) by Christine Courtenay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay. When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author ...Show more
In Search of Mr Darcy by Christina FORD
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A coming-of-middle-age memoir, about the search for love, friendship and the ever-elusive Mr Darcy
Through Her Eyes: Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine by Melissa Roberts, Trevor Watson EDS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline – covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels ...Show more
Chess Queens by Jennifer Shahade
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Like The Queen's Gambit, this isn't really about chess, but power'Sunday TimesWhat does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major tournaments. At the top, she finds rivalry and friendship; sexism and feminism; ecstatic hi ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine; Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten." -- Evening Standard A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle to realize her dreams of "freedom and fantasy" in 1920s Paris, appearing in ...Show more
Escape from Manus: The untold true story by Jaivet Ealom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. ...Show more
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart by Judith Lucy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Judith Lucy was just Great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket – but she was about to move in with the love of her life! Everything would work out ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams'Michael Cunningham, a ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams,Christine Breen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Thirty-four years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine’s ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to w ...Show more
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into thes ...Show more