Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a ...Show more
Survivors by David Long
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017 Beautifully presented in a large, paperback format, and fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family. Be shocked and amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival, includin ...Show more
One Italian Summer by Pip Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable t ...Show more
Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Long before Ruhi fell pregnant, she knew she was never going to be the 'good Indian daughter' her parents demanded. But when the discovery that she is having a girl sends her into a slump of disappointment, it becomes clear she's getting weighed down by emotional baggage that needs to be unpacked, quick ...Show more
The Jungle Doctor: The Adventures of an International Wildlife Vet by Chloe Buiting
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Explore the majestic, biodiverse world with Australia's very own jungle vet.Fresh from veterinarian school, passionate conservationist Dr Chloe Buiting headed for the frontline of South Africa's rhino-poaching crisis, going on to live and work with Masai communities in Northern Tanzania. And the adventu ...Show more
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After fi ...Show more
I Know I Am Rude: Prince Philip's Life in His Own Words by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the age of twenty-one, the future Prince Philip wrote to a relative: 'I know you will never think much of me. I am rude and unmannerly.' This affectionate compendium, brings together many known and less well-known stories about the prince, giving an insight into the royal world where he 'traipses aro ...Show more
The Countess from Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Elizabeth von Armin
She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe. She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirl ...Show more
Roots: Home is Who We Are: Voices from the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition by SBS Emerging Writers' Competition
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Roots brings us thirty of the best short memoirs chosen from more than 2000 entries in the inaugural SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition. Offering a snapshot of contemporary Australia, this diverse collection of stories explores love, family, loss, culture, sexual awakening and the abiding connections to ...Show more
All About Yves: Notes from a transition by Yves Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience. Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones? I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a ...Show more
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is Britain's favourite (and naughtiest) treasu ...Show more