Mother and I: the history of a wilful family by Ianto Ware
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Highly Commended, National Biography Award, 2022'If only all memoirs were like this: tautly written, droll yet poignant, vividly rendered, historically aware ... Ware brings his mother and their relationship to life with tender detachment, sharp detail and such attentiveness to her inner life that one m ...Show more
Camera Girl - The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera ...Show more
The School That Hope Built: The inspirational Australian woman using education to fight poverty in Africa by Madeleine Kelly, Gemma Sisia
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary account of Gemma Sisia's twenty years as the founder of St Jude's, a school that is changing the lives of some of the poorest children in Tanzania. From a country town in Australia to a small village in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia has built a truly remarkable legacy. In 2002, Gemma founded Th ...Show more
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Evil stepmother. Astute businesswomen. Just a smattering of the many labels attached to the irrepressible Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. But who was the real Raine? What was hidden behind the immaculat ...Show more
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A profound reflection on assisted death, and the enduring power of a marriage: an astonishing memoir from the celebrated author. New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In Janu ...Show more
More Letters of Note : Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's fa ...Show more
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The trilogy that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy. Just ...Show more
Weatherboard and Iron - Politics, the bush and me by Barnaby Joyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Barnaby Joyce is one of Australia's most recognisable and divisive politicians of the modern era. A former Leader of the Australian National Party,and the Deputy Prime Minister between 2016 and 2018, Joyce's world came crashing down around himin spectacular fashion this year when it was revealedthat he ...Show more
Never Finished - Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins' smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. In Never Finished, Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology, and strategies that enabled him to learn ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more
The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’. What’s it like to grow up in an Aussie family that has a man of every flavour? A bank robber, an infamous sports umpire, several different breeds of drug addict (collect the whole set!), a roster of crafty swindlers, an attempted murderer and th ...Show more
Running Strong: The best, inspiring, revealing memoir for every woman this Mother's Day 2023 by Candice Warner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A story about running away, crashing through and hitting my stride When the whole world seems set against you, how you keep the negative voice out of your head? Candice Warner knows all about the damaging consequences of living life in front of the cameras and has learned a lot about how to insulate fr ...Show more